SB2024092504 - SUSE update for python311
Published: September 25, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6232)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of .tar archives when processing it with regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7592)
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 within the 'http.cookies' standard library module when parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in the cookie value. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8088)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop within the the CPython "zipfile" module affecting "zipfile.Path". A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.