Symlink Following Affecting platform-python-devel package, versions <0:3.6.8-51.el8_8.6
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHONDEVEL-7159779
- published 29 May 2024
- disclosed 19 Mar 2024
Introduced: 19 Mar 2024
CVE-2023-6597 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 platform-python-devel to version 0:3.6.8-51.el8_8.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:3391.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python-devel package and not the platform-python-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was found in the CPython tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.
The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6597
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/20/5
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/02a9259c717738dfe6b463c44d7e17f2b6d2cb3a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5585334d772b253a01a6730e8202ffb1607c3d25
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6ceb8aeda504b079fef7a57b8d81472f15cdd9a5
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/81c16cd94ec38d61aa478b9a452436dc3b1b524d
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8eaeefe49d179ca4908d052745e3bb8b6f238f82
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d54e22a669ae6e987199bb5d2c69bb5a46b0083b
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/91133
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00025.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3IGRX54M7RNCQOXVQO5KQKTGWCOABIM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5VHWS52HGD743C47UMCSAK2A773M2YE/
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/Q5C6ATFC67K53XFV4KE45325S7NS62LD/