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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0111: python3 (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0111)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236345

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0111 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2023-6597:
 An issue was found in the CPython `tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.
 The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances.

 CVE-2024-0450:
 An issue was found in the CPython `zipfile` module affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.
 The zipfile module is vulnerable to quoted-overlap zip-bombs which exploit the zip format to create a zip-bomb with a high compression ratio. The fixed versions of CPython makes the zipfile module reject zip archives which overlap entries in the archive.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240111.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236345

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0111.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6597

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:platform-python-debug, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:platform-python-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:platform-python, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-test

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6597, CVE-2024-0450