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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8221-1
April 29, 2026

wheel vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Summary:

wheel could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.

Software Description:
- wheel: Command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files

Details:

It was discovered that wheel did not correctly handle certain file paths.
If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  python-wheel-common             0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-wheel                   0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-wheel-whl               0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8221-1
  CVE-2026-24049