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openSUSE: 2025:02050-1 important: python39 denial of service patch

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An essential security brief detailing significant enhancements for python39 in openSUSE distributions alongside fixes for identified vulnerabilities.
An update that solves five vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for python39 fixes the following issues:

python39 was updated from version 3.9.21 to version 3.9.23:

* Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-4516: Fixed blocking DecodeError handling vulnerability, which

could lead to DoS (bsc#1243273)

* CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4517: Fixed multiple

issues that allowed tarfile extraction filters to be bypassed using crafted

symlinks and hard links (bsc#1244056, bsc#1244059, bsc#1244060, bsc#1244032)

* Other changes and bugs fixed:

* Fixed issue with reproducible builds (bsc#1239210)

* Fixed a potential denial of service vulnerability in the imaplib module.

* Fixed bugs in the in the folding of rfc2047 encoded-words and in the folding

of quoted strings when flattening an email message using a modern email

policy.

* Fixed parsing long IPv6 addresses with embedded IPv4 address.

* Fixed ipaddress.IPv6Address.reverse_pointer output according to RFC 3596,

§2.5.

*...

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2050=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2050=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2050=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2050=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-2050=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-2050=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-2050=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-2050=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* python39-tk-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-dbm-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-idle-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* libpython3_9-1_0-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-testsuite-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-testsuite-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-debugsource-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-curses-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-base-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* libpython3_9-1_0-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-doc-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-dbm-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-tk-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-curses-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-tools-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-doc-devhelp-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-base-debuginfo-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-devel-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* python39-core-debugsource-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64)

* python39-32bit-3.9.23-150300.4.75.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1239210

* bsc#1241067

* bsc#1243273

* bsc#1244032

* bsc#1244056

* bsc#1244059

* bsc#1244060

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12718.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4138.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4330.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4516.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4517.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239210

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241067

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243273

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244032

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244056

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244059

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244060

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02050-1
Release Date: 2025-06-20T12:42:19Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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