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Medium RLSA-2025:15874 1 CVE

Moderate: python-cryptography security update

Published Oct 10, 2025 · Updated Oct 10, 2025

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-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 python-cryptography 0:36.0.1-5.el9_6

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9

    cryptography vulnerable to NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates

    cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. Calling `load_pem_pkcs7_certificates` or `load_der_pkcs7_certificates` could lead to a NULL-pointer dereference and segfault. Exploitation of this vulnerab…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255331