CVE-2024-0450 Affecting python3-devel package, versions <3.6.15-150000.3.147.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-PYTHON3DEVEL-7116776
  • published27 May 2024
  • disclosed24 May 2024

Introduced: 24 May 2024

CVE-2024-0450  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 python3-devel to version 3.6.15-150000.3.147.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-devel package and not the python3-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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