SB2024053005 - SUSE update for python36
Published: May 30, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-48566)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information,
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py. A remote attacker can exploit the race and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-52425)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing large tokens. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6597)
The vulnerability allows a local user to delete arbitrary files on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue during cleanup when handling temporary files. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to a critical file on the system and delete it.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-0450)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the zipfile module does not properly control consumption of internal resources when extracting files from a zip archive. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive aka zip-bomb to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.