Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-6232: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
09/03/2024
10/02/2024
10/01/2024
10/02/2024
Description
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-python3
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