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RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (RHSA-2024:4421)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 202079
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python39:3.9 / python39-devel:3.9.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4421 advisory.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):
* python39:3.9/python3x-setuptools: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py (CVE-2022-40897)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL python39:3.9 / python39-devel:3.9 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4421.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158559
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 202079
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4421.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 7/10/2024
Updated: 7/10/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.4
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40897
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pybind11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-idle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pybind11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pysocks, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-toml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-toml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pybind11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-idna
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-40897