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RockyLinux 8 : python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RLSA-2023:2763)

high Nessus Plugin ID 279079

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:2763 advisory.

 * python: int() type in PyLong_FromString() does not limit amount of digits converting text to int leading to DoS (CVE-2020-10735)

 * python: open redirection vulnerability in lib/http/server.py may lead to information disclosure (CVE-2021-28861)

 * python: CPU denial of service via inefficient IDNA decoder (CVE-2022-45061)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:2763

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834423

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120642

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144072

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 279079

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-2763.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 12/18/2025

Updated: 12/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psycopg2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pyyaml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-idna, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-lxml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psutil-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cython, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3x-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cffi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-attrs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-babel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-ply, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-py, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-chardet, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3x-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-markupsafe-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psutil, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cryptography-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-packaging, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pytest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cffi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cython-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cryptography-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-markupsafe-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-six, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-idna, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-lxml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-lxml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-more-itertools, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pyyaml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cython-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cffi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psutil-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-jinja2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10735, CVE-2021-28861, CVE-2022-45061