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Fedora 41: Python3.6 Important Denial of Service Fix 2025-8f560fcc9b

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch update for Python 3.6 in Fedora 41 tackling CVE-2025-8194 to enhance protection against denial of service vulnerabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2025-8194

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-2025-8194

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue fedora important python3.6

Change Log

* Mon Aug 11 2025 Lumr Balhar - 3.6.15-49 - Security fix for CVE-2025-8194 * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.6.15-48 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2384070 - CVE-2025-8194 python3.6: Cpython infinite loop when parsing a tarfile [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2384070

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-8f560fcc9b' 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: python3.6
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 3.6.15
Release: 49.fc41
URL: https://www.python.org/
Summary: Version 3.6 of the Python interpreter

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue fedora important python3.6

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