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TencentOS Server 3: python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (TSSA-2024:0776)

high Nessus Plugin ID 239894

Synopsis

The remote TencentOS Server 3 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0776 advisory.

 Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2024-6232:
 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux 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 packages.

See Also

https://mirrors.tencent.com/tlinux/errata/tssa-20240776.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 239894

File Name: tencentos_TSSA_2024_0776.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 6/16/2025

Updated: 11/20/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6232

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:cython, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python39, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-idna, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:numpy, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:scipy, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-toml, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:pytest, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-py, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-iniconfig, cpe:/o:tencent:tencentos_server:3, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python3x-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:pybind11, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python3x-pip, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python3x-pyparsing

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/etc/os-release, Host/TencentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6232