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Fedora 42 : python3.9 (2025-6efe030226)

high Nessus Plugin ID 238371

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-6efe030226 advisory.

 Update to 3.9.23.


 - gh-135034: [CVE 2024-12718] [CVE 2025-4138] [CVE 2025-4330] [CVE 2025-4435] [CVE 2025-4517] Fixes multiple issues that allowed tarfile extraction filters (filter=data and filter=tar) to be bypassed using crafted symlinks and hard links.
 - gh-133767: Fix use-after-free in the unicode-escape decoder with a non-strict error handler.
 - gh-128840: Short-circuit the processing of long IPv6 addresses early in ipaddress to prevent excessive memory consumption and a minor denial-of-service.
 - gh-80222: Folding of quoted string in display_name violates RFC.


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

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

Solution

Update the affected python3.9 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-6efe030226

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 238371

File Name: fedora_2025-6efe030226.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2025

Updated: 6/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python3.9, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2025

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