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Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3.11-idle  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-PYTHON311IDLE-11464527
  • published5 Aug 2025
  • disclosed24 Aug 2007
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Introduced: 24 Aug 2007

CVE-2007-4559  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3.11-idle package and not the python3.11-idle package as distributed by RHEL.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.

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