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Fedora 41 - python3.11 Update: critical security improvements

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41 announces an important update for Python 3.11, which includes crucial security patches related to template strings.
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-2024-01d838d947' 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 41
Version: 3.11.11
Release: 1.fc41
Summary: Version 3.11 of the Python interpreter

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