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High RHSA-2025:16117 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: python3 security update

Published Sep 18, 2025 · Updated Sep 7, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-debug 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-debuginfo 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-devel 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-idle 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-libs 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-test 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 python3-tkinter 0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2025-8194

    Tarfile infinite loop during parsing with negative member offset

    There is a defect in the CPython “tarfile” module affecting the “TarFile” extraction and entry enumeration APIs. The tar implementation would process tar archives with negative offsets without error, resulting in an infinite loop and deadlock during the parsi…

    Python Software Foundation CPython python3.4 python3.5 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2384043
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_16117.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8194
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8194
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8194
  • article
    https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/130577
  • article
    https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/137027
  • article
    https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/ZULLF3IZ726XP5EY7XJ7YIN3K5MDYR2D/