ALAS-2024-605


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-605
Advisory Release Date: 2024-04-25 16:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-04-25 16:40 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:

python3.9


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update python3.9 --releasever 2023.4.20240429 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    python3-tkinter-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-devel-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3.9-debugsource-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-idle-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-debug-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-libs-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64
    python3-test-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.aarch64

noarch:
    python-unversioned-command-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.noarch

src:
    python3.9-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.src

x86_64:
    python3-tkinter-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-devel-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-idle-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3.9-debugsource-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-debug-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-libs-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64
    python3-test-3.9.16-1.amzn2023.0.7.x86_64