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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-0450: Security patch for python3 (ALAS-2024-2515)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-0450: Security patch for python3 (ALAS-2024-2515)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/19/2024
Created
04/19/2024
Added
04/19/2024
Modified
04/19/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-debug
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-test
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-tkinter
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python3-tools

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