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CVE-2024-6232

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

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.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mmm5-wgvp-wp8r
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4eaf4891c12589e3c7bdad5f5b076e4c8392dd06
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/743acbe872485dc18df4d8ab2dc7895187f062c4
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7d1f50cd92ff7e10a1c15a8f591dde8a6843a64d
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4225ca91547aa97ed3aca391614afbb255bc877
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d449caf8a179e3b954268b3a88eb9170be3c8fbf
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ed3a49ea734ada357ff4442996fd4ae71d253373
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-6232
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6232

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