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Fedora 40 python3.11 Security Update 2024: Fix for Activation Scripts

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update to Python 3.11 introduces significant enhancements in code readability and security, ensuring a safer coding experience for all developers
Python 3.11 is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted programming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability

Summary

Python 3.11 is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted

programming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability.

It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of

third-party libraries.

The python3.11 package provides the "python3.11" executable: the reference

interpreter for the Python language, version 3.

The majority of its standard library is provided in the python3.11-libs package,

which should be installed automatically along with python3.11.

The remaining parts of the Python standard library are broken out into the

python3.11-tkinter and python3.11-test packages, which may need to be installed

separately.

Documentation for Python is provided in the python3.11-docs package.

Packages containing additional libraries for Python are generally named with

the "python3.11-" prefix.

Update Information:

Python 3.11.11 security release. Security content in this release gh-122792: Changed IPv4-mapped ipaddress.IPv6Address to consistently use the mapped IPv4 address value for deciding properties. Properties which have their behavior fixed are is_multicast, is_reserved, is_link_local, is_global, and is_unspecified. CVE-2024-9287: gh-124651: Properly quote template strings in venv activation scripts.

Change Log

* Tue Dec 3 2024 Lumír Balhar - 3.11.11-1 - Update to 3.11.11 - Fixes: rhbz#2321655

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2321655 - CVE-2024-9287 python3.11: Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321655

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-5ea38dfb80' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: python3.11
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 3.11.11
Release: 1.fc40
Summary: Version 3.11 of the Python interpreter

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