CVE-2024-6923 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3.11-idle (opens in a new tab)
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- published8 Mar 2025
- disclosed1 Aug 2024
Introduced: 1 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-6923 (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.
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython.
The email module didn’t properly quote newlines for email headers when serializing an email message allowing for header injection when an email is serialized.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6923
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121650
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/122233
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/QH3BUOE2DYQBWP7NAQ7UNHPPOELKISRW/
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4766d1200fdf8b6728137aa2927a297e224d5fa7
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4aaa4259b5a6e664b7316a4d60bdec7ee0f124d0
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/06f28dc236708f72871c64d4bc4b4ea144c50147
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b158a76ce094897c870fb6b3de62887b7ccc33f1
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7be505d137a22528cb0fc004422c0081d5d90e6
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7c0f09e69e950cf3c5ada9dbde93898eb975533
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/01/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/02/2
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240926-0003/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00005.html
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/097633981879b3c9de9a1dd120d3aa585ecc2384
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html