RHSA-2023:6712 — Security Advisory

An update for python-wheel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Wheel is the reference implementation of the Python wheel packaging standard, as defined in PEP 427.

Security Fix(es):

• python-wheel: remote attackers can cause denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli (CVE-2022-40898)

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.