RHSA-2024:4078 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: python3.9 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · June 25, 2024
Updated · October 23, 2026
Topic
An update for python3.9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
Description
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):
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python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (CVE-2023-6597)
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python: The zipfile module is vulnerable to zip-bombs leading to denial of service (CVE-2024-0450)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.