Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RHELAI1BOOTCNVIDIARHEL9-9892495
  • published29 Apr 2025
  • disclosed3 Sept 2024

Introduced: 3 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-6232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9 package and not the rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython.

Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1