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AlmaLinux 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (ALSA-2024:3466)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198235

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:3466 advisory.

 * python39:3.9/python39: python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (CVE-2023-6597)
 * python39:3.9/python39: python: The zipfile module is vulnerable to zip-bombs leading to denial of service (CVE-2024-0450)
 * python39:3.9/python-idna: potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to idna.encode() (CVE-2024-3651)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3466.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 198235

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-3466.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 5/31/2024

Updated: 7/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-packaging, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pytest, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-mod_wsgi, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-idna, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-ply, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-debug, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-chardet, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pip, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-numpy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-toml, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-py, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-requests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-cython, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-test, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-scipy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-wheel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-iniconfig, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-lxml, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pluggy, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-cffi, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-six, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pybind11-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-idle, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pysocks, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-psutil, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-setuptools-wheel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-numpy-doc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-pybind11, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python39-attrs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6597, CVE-2024-0450, CVE-2024-3651

CWE: 400, 450, 61