Fedora 40 FEDORA-2024-46374d2703 Critical Python3.6 Security Fix
fedora
March 23, 2024
Security fix for CVE-2007-4559
Summary
Python 3.6 package for developers.
This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older
version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run
your applications with Python 3.6, see other distributions
that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software Collections
or older Fedora releases.
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2007-4559. Fix tests for XMLPullParser with Expat 2.6.0
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Thu Feb 29 2024 Charalampos Stratakis
References
[ 1 ] Bug #263261 - CVE-2007-4559 python: tarfile module directory traversal
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-46374d2703' 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: python3.6
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 3.6.15
Release: 27.fc40
Summary: Version 3.6 of the Python interpreter
Topics Covered
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