Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2007-4559: Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267.
Fixed packages 3
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | python-pip-wheel | 0:20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.10 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | python2-pip | 0:20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.10 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | python3-pip | 0:20.2.2-1.amzn2.0.10 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.8
Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allow…
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2007-4559.html