CVE-2024-0450 Affecting python311-curses package, versions <3.11.9-150400.9.26.1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-PYTHON311CURSES-6815404
  • published9 May 2024
  • disclosed8 May 2024

Introduced: 8 May 2024

CVE-2024-0450  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 python311-curses to version 3.11.9-150400.9.26.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python311-curses package and not the python311-curses package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 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