ALAS-2024-588


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-588
Advisory Release Date: 2024-04-10 22:17 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-04-15 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

An issue was found in the CPython `zipfile` module affecting versions 3.12.2, 3.11.8, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.

The zipfile module is vulnerable to "quoted-overlap" zip-bombs which exploit the zip format to create a zip-bomb with a high compression ratio. The fixed versions of CPython makes the zipfile module reject zip archives which overlap entries in the archive. (CVE-2024-0450)


Affected Packages:

python3.11


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update python3.11 --releasever 2023.4.20240416 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    python3.11-tkinter-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-devel-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-debugsource-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-idle-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-debug-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-debuginfo-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-libs-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
    python3.11-test-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64

src:
    python3.11-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.src

x86_64:
    python3.11-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-tkinter-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-debugsource-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-idle-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-devel-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-debug-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-debuginfo-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-libs-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
    python3.11-test-3.11.6-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64