Issued:

2024-06-03

Updated:

2024-06-03

RHSA-2024:3552 - Moderate: python-idna security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: python-idna security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for python-idna is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6.

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.

Description

Security Fix(es):

• python-idna: potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to idna.encode() (CVE-2024-3651)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• python3-idna-2.5-5.el8_6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-idna-2.5-5.el8_6.1.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2274779

CVEs

• CVE-2024-3651

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.