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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: python3.11 security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2025:9918-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9918
Issue date:         2025-07-01
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2024-12718
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Summary: 

An update for python3.11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* cpython: Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (CVE-2025-4435)

* cpython: Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory (CVE-2024-12718)

* cpython: Extraction filter bypass for linking outside extraction directory (CVE-2025-4330)

* python: cpython: Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow (CVE-2025-4517)

* cpython: python: Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory (CVE-2025-4138)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2024-12718

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370010
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370013
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370014
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370016
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372426