Product Errata

RLSA-2024:9192

Moderate: python3.11 security update

Topic

An update is available for python3.11.

This update affects Rocky Linux 9.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* python: The zipfile module is vulnerable to zip-bombs leading to denial of service (CVE-2024-0450)

* python: cpython: Iterating over a malicious ZIP file may lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8088)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 3/17/2025

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

CVEs

References

  • No references