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Fedora 41 - FEDORA-2025-bec494726c Critical: Python 3.8 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41 users are alerted to critical vulnerabilities in Python 3.8 (CVE-2024-11168, CVE-2025-0938). Immediate action is needed to secure systems
Security fixes for CVE-2024-11168 and CVE-2025-0938

Summary

Python 3.8 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 3.8, see other distributions

that support it, such as an older Fedora release.

Update Information:

Security fixes for CVE-2024-11168 and CVE-2025-0938

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow Fedora critical threat python python update CVE-2024-11168 CVE-2025-0938 CVE Issue

Change Log

* Thu Feb 13 2025 Charalampos Stratakis - 3.8.20-2 - Security fixes for CVE-2024-11168 and CVE-2025-0938 - Fixes: rhbz#2343279

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2343279 - CVE-2025-0938 python3.8: URL parser allowed square brackets in domain names [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2343279

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-bec494726c' 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: python3.8
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 3.8.20
Release: 2.fc41
URL: https://www.python.org/
Summary: Version 3.8 of the Python interpreter

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow Fedora critical threat python python update CVE-2024-11168 CVE-2025-0938 CVE Issue

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