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SUSE: 2025:02057-1 important: python311 DoS and extraction issues

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2025
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The latest patch for python311 tackles significant vulnerabilities in SUSE environments, enhancing overall system reliability and safety.
* bsc#1241067 * bsc#1243273 * bsc#1244032 * bsc#1244056 * bsc#1244059

Summary

## This update for python311 fixes the following issues: python311 was updated from version 3.11.10 to 3.11.13: * 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: * Improved handling of system call failures that OpenSSL reports (bsc#1241067) * Disable GC during thread operations to prevent deadlocks. * 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

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References

* bsc#1241067

* bsc#1243273

* bsc#1244032

* bsc#1244056

* bsc#1244059

* bsc#1244060

Cross-

* CVE-2024-12718

* CVE-2025-4138

* CVE-2025-4330

* CVE-2025-4516

* CVE-2025-4517

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-12718 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

* CVE-2024-12718 ( NVD ): 10.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2024-12718 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

* CVE-2025-4138 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

* CVE-2025-4138 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2025-4330 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02057-1
Release Date: 2025-06-21T09:04:47Z
Rating: important

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