CVE-2024-6232
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-03 12:29
Modified
2024-12-04 15:29
Severity ?
Summary
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.
References
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06Patch
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4Patch
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbfPatch
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373Patch
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286Issue Tracking, Patch
cna@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241018-0007/
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