SUSE SLES15: libpython3_9-1_0 / libpython3_9-1_0-32bit / python39 / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2957-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178801

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2957-1 advisory.

Update to 3.9.17:

- urllib.parse.urlsplit() now strips leading C0 control and space characters following the specification for URLs defined by WHATWG in response to CVE-2023-24329 (bsc#1208471).
- Fixed a security in flaw in uu.decode() that could allow for directory traversal based on the input if no out_file was specified.
- Do not expose the local on-disk location in directory indexes produced by http.client.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.
- trace.__main__ now uses io.open_code() for files to be executed instead of raw open().
- CVE-2007-4559: The extraction methods in tarfile, and shutil.unpack_archive(), have a new filter argument that allows limiting tar features than may be surprising or dangerous, such as creating files outside the destination directory. See Extraction filters for details (fixing bsc#1203750).
- Fixed a deadlock at shutdown when clearing thread states if any finalizer tries to acquire the runtime head lock.
- Fixed a crash due to a race while iterating over thread states in clearing threading.local.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178801

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2957-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/26/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24329

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_9-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-idle, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-dbm

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4559, CVE-2023-24329

IAVA: 2023-A-0118-S, 2023-A-0283-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2957-1

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