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Medium RLSA-2023:7050 2 CVEs

Moderate: python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 security update

Published Feb 17, 2026 · Updated Feb 17, 2026

Summary

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* python: tarfile module directory traversal (CVE-2007-4559)

* python-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 45

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 babel 0:2.7.0-11.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 Cython 0:0.29.14-4.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 mod_wsgi 0:4.6.8-5.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 numpy 0:1.17.3-7.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 pytest 0:4.6.6-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-asn1crypto 0:1.2.0-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-atomicwrites 0:1.3.0-8.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-attrs 0:19.3.0-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-cffi 0:1.13.2-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-chardet 0:3.0.4-19.module+el8.10.0+1582+bc278001
Rocky Linux · 8 python-chardet 0:3.0.4-19.module+el8.10.0+1860+afcc1c71
Rocky Linux · 8 python-chardet 0:3.0.4-19.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-cryptography 0:2.8-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-idna 0:2.8-6.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-jinja2 0:2.11.3-1.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-lxml 0:4.4.1-7.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-markupsafe 0:1.1.1-6.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-more-itertools 0:7.2.0-5.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-packaging 0:19.2-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pluggy 0:0.13.0-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-ply 0:3.11-10.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-ply 0:3.11-10.module+el8.10.0+1582+bc278001
Rocky Linux · 8 python-ply 0:3.11-10.module+el8.10.0+1860+afcc1c71
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psutil 0:5.6.4-4.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psycopg2 0:2.8.4-4.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-py 0:1.8.0-8.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pycparser 0:2.19-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-PyMySQL 0:0.10.1-1.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pysocks 0:1.7.1-4.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pysocks 0:1.7.1-4.module+el8.10.0+1860+afcc1c71
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pysocks 0:1.7.1-4.module+el8.10.0+1582+bc278001
Rocky Linux · 8 python-requests 0:2.22.0-10.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-urllib3 0:1.25.7-5.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-wcwidth 0:0.1.7-16.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python-wheel 0:0.33.6-6.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python38 0:3.8.17-2.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-pip 0:19.3.1-7.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-pyparsing 0:2.4.5-3.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-setuptools 0:41.6.0-5.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-six 0:1.12.0-10.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 pytz 0:2019.3-4.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 PyYAML 0:5.4.1-1.module+el8.10.0+1582+bc278001
Rocky Linux · 8 PyYAML 0:5.4.1-1.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789
Rocky Linux · 8 PyYAML 0:5.4.1-1.module+el8.10.0+1860+afcc1c71
Rocky Linux · 8 scipy 0:1.3.1-5.module+el8.9.0+1418+f0d66789

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2007-4559 Public exploit EPSS 27%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allow…

  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2023-32681 Public exploit

    Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header in requests

    Requests is a HTTP library. Since Requests 2.3.0, Requests has been leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers when redirected to an HTTPS endpoint. This is a product of how we use `rebuild_proxies` to reattach the `Proxy-Authorization` header…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209469
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261