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Fedora 42: Important Python3 Docs Denial of Service Vulnerability Update

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore Fedora 42's Python 3.13 documentation update, addressing critical issues and improving functionality.
This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.13

Summary

The python3-docs package contains documentation on the Python 3

programming language and interpreter.

Update Information:

This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.13

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora important python-docs CVE

Change Log

* Fri Dec 5 2025 Miro Hron\u010dok - 3.13.11-1 - Update to 3.13.11 * Wed Dec 3 2025 Tom\u0161 Hrn\u010diar - 3.13.10-1 - Update to 3.13.10

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2402874 - CVE-2025-8291 python3.13: Python zipfile End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not checked [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402874 [ 2 ] Bug #2413057 - CVE-2025-6075 python3.13: Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2413057 [ 3 ] Bug #2421614 - CVE-2025-12084 python3.13: cpython: Quadratic algorithm in xml.dom.minidom leads to denial of service [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2421614

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-7ec743931c' 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-docs
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.13.11
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://www.python.org/
Summary: Documentation for the Python 3 programming language

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora important python-docs CVE

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