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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-be6ea1ce44 critical: python3.13 update

This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.0.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-be6ea1ce44 2024-12-19 03:59:44.538953+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : python3.13 Product : Fedora 40 Version : 3.13.1 Release : 2.fc40 URL : https://www.python.org/ Summary : Version 3.13 of the Python interpreter Description : Python 3.13 is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted programming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability. It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of third-party libraries. The python3.13 package provides the "python3.13" executable: the reference interpreter for the Python language, version 3. The majority of its standard library is provided in the python3.13-libs package, which should be installed automatically along with python3.13. The remaining parts of the Python standard library are broken out into the python3.13-tkinter and python3.13-test packages, which may need to be installed separately. Documentation for Python is provided in the python3.13-docs package. Packages containing additional libraries for Python are generally named with the "python3.13-" prefix. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements anddocumentation changes since 3.13.0. Security content in this release gh-122792: Changed IPv4-mapped ipaddress.IPv6Address to consistently use the mapped IPv4 address value for deciding properties. Properties which have their behavior fixed are is_multicast, is_reserved, is_link_local, is_global, and is_unspecified. CVE-2024-9287: gh-124651: Properly quote template strings in venv activation scripts. gh-125140: Remove the current directory from sys.path when using PyREPL. CVE-2024-12254: Unbounded memory buffering in SelectorSocketTransport.writelines() fixed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Dec 9 2024 Miro Hrončok - 3.13.1-2 - Security fix for CVE-2024-12254 - Fixes: rhbz#2330927 * Tue Dec 3 2024 Charalampos Stratakis - 3.13.1-1 - Update to 3.13.1 - Security fix for CVE-2024-9287 - Fixes: rhbz#2321657 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2321657 - CVE-2024-9287 python3.13: Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321657 [ 2 ] Bug #2330927 - CVE-2024-12254 python3.13: Unbounded memory buffering in SelectorSocketTransport.writelines() [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330927 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-be6ea1ce44' 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 All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Stay up-to-date with urgent security patches for Python 3.13 on Fedora, focusingon memory buffering vulnerabilities and activation script issues to ensure safety. Fedora python security update, python 3.13 advisory, Fedora security fixes. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Dec 19, 2024 •Critical Fedora