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Fedora 40 : python3.13 (2024-be6ea1ce44)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213239

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-be6ea1ce44 advisory.

 This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 ====================================================

 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.0.

 Security content in this release
 --------------------------------

 - [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-125140](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/125140): Remove the current directory from sys.path when using PyREPL.
 - CVE-2024-12254: Unbounded memory buffering in `SelectorSocketTransport.writelines()` fixed.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 python3.13 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-be6ea1ce44

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 213239

File Name: fedora_2024-be6ea1ce44.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/19/2024

Updated: 1/15/2025

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

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12254

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12254

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python3.13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12254, CVE-2024-9287