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.

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RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (RHSA-2024:4421)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 202079

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