High RHSA-2025:1750 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: python3 security update

Published Feb 24, 2025 · Updated Aug 19, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 8

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-debug	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-debuginfo	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-devel	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-idle	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-libs	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-test	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	python3-tkinter	0:3.6.8-21.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.5

CVE-2024-6232 Public exploit

Regular-expression DoS when parsing TarFile headers

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.

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

Sep 3, 2024

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309426
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_1750.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6232
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6232
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6232
article
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121285
article
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121286
article
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/JRYFTPRHZRTLMZLWQEUHZSJXNHM4ACTY/