CVE-2024-0450 Affecting platform-python package, versions <0:3.6.8-62.el8_10.rocky.0


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-PLATFORMPYTHON-7262976
  • published15 Jun 2024
  • disclosed19 Mar 2024

Introduced: 19 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-0450  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 platform-python to version 0:3.6.8-62.el8_10.rocky.0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:3347.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python package and not the platform-python package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was found in the CPython zipfile module affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.

The zipfile module is vulnerable to “quoted-overlap” zip-bombs which exploit the zip format to create a zip-bomb with a high compression ratio. The fixed versions of CPython makes the zipfile module reject zip archives which overlap entries in the archive.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1