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SUSE: python3 Important Security Issues CVE-2025-4517, 2025:02778-1

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE enhances python3 to resolve various vulnerabilities, tackling security threats such as denial of service and data leakage risks.
* bsc#1233012 * bsc#1243273 * bsc#1244032 * bsc#1244056 * bsc#1244059

Summary

## This update for python3 fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-4516: use-after-free in the unicode-escape decoder when using the error handler (bsc#1243273). * CVE-2024-12718: Fixed extraction filter bypass that allowed file metadata modification outside extraction directory (bsc#1244056) * CVE-2025-4138: Fixed issue that might allow symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata (bsc#1244059) * CVE-2025-4330: Fixed extraction filter bypass that allowed linking outside extraction directory (bsc#1244060) * CVE-2025-4435: Fixed Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (bsc#1244061) * CVE-2025-4517: Fixed arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data" (bsc#1244032)

References

* bsc#1233012

* bsc#1243273

* bsc#1244032

* bsc#1244056

* bsc#1244059

* bsc#1244060

* bsc#1244061

* bsc#1244401

* bsc#1244705

* bsc#1247249

* bsc#831629

Cross-

* CVE-2024-12718

* CVE-2025-4138

* CVE-2025-4330

* CVE-2025-4435

* CVE-2025-4516

* CVE-2025-4517

* CVE-2025-6069

* CVE-2025-8194

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02778-1
Release Date: 2025-08-13T06:47:26Z
Rating: important

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