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Fedora 40 : python3.9 (2024-607a0047bc)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212668

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-607a0047bc advisory.

 Python 3.9.21 security release.

 Security content in this release
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 - [gh-122792](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/122792): Changed IPv4-mapped `ipaddress.IPv6Address` to consistently use the mapped IPv4 address value for deciding properties.
 Properties which have their behavior fixed are `is_multicast`, `is_reserved`, `is_link_local`, `is_global`, and `is_unspecified`.
 - CVE-2024-9287: [gh-124651](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/124651): Properly quote template strings in `venv` activation scripts.
 - [gh-103848](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103848): Added checks to ensure that [ bracketed ] hosts found by `urllib.parse.urlsplit()` are of IPv6 or IPvFuture format.
 - [gh-95588](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95588): Clarified the conflicting advice given in the `ast` documentation about `ast.literal_eval()` being safe for use on untrusted input while at the same time warning that it can crash the process. The latter statement is true and is deemed unfixable without a large amount of work unsuitable for a bugfix. So we keep the warning and no longer claim that literal_eval is safe.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected python3.9 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-607a0047bc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212668

File Name: fedora_2024-607a0047bc.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python3.9, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9287