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Fedora 39: Fed-2023-5460cf6dfb Critical Fix for CPU Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 15, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important notice regarding Fedora 39, which resolves CVE-2022-45061 to mitigate CPU denial of service vulnerabilities in pypy.
Security fix for CVE-2022-45061

Summary

PyPy's implementation of Python, featuring a Just-In-Time compiler on some CPU

architectures, and various optimized implementations of the standard types

(strings, dictionaries, etc)

This build of PyPy has JIT-compilation enabled.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2022-45061

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Fedora CPU issue pypy CVE-2022-45061

Change Log

* Tue Aug 29 2023 Charalampos Stratakis - 7.3.12-3 - Security fix for CVE-2022-45061 - Fixes: rhbz#2144428

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2144072 - CVE-2022-45061 python: CPU denial of service via inefficient IDNA decoder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144072

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5460cf6dfb' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: pypy
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 7.3.12
Release: 3.fc39
URL: https://pypy.org/
Summary: Python implementation with a Just-In-Time compiler

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Fedora CPU issue pypy CVE-2022-45061

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