| Name | CVE-2024-6232 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pypy (PTS) | jessie | 2.4.0+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 5.6.0+dfsg-4 | vulnerable |
| buster | 7.0.0+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 7.3.3+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| python2.7 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.7.9-2-ds1-1+deb8u12 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 2.7.13-2+deb9u6 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.7.13-2+deb9u9 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.7.16-2+deb10u4 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| python3.11 (PTS) | bookworm | 3.11.2-6+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 3.11.2-6+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| python3.12 (PTS) | trixie | 3.12.6-1 | fixed |
| sid | 3.12.7-1 | fixed |
| python3.13 (PTS) | sid, trixie | 3.13.0-1 | fixed |
| python3.9 (PTS) | bullseye | 3.9.2-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pypy | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| pypy | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
| python2.7 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
| python3.11 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
| python3.12 | source | (unstable) | 3.12.6-1 | | | |
| python3.13 | source | (unstable) | 3.13.0~rc2-1 | | | |
| python3.9 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - python3.11 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - python2.7 <ignored> (Unsupported in Bullseye, only included to build a few applications)
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373 (v3.13.0rc2)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06 (v3.12.6)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf (v3.11.10)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4 (v3.10.15)