Issued:
2024-10-23
Updated:
2024-10-23

RHSA-2024:8365 - Moderate: python-idna security update

Synopsis

Moderate: python-idna security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for python-idna is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

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

The hsakmt packages include a thunk library for AMD's Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Linux kernel driver (amdkfd).

Security Fix(es):

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

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x

Updated Packages

  • python-idna-2.4-2.el7_9.src.rpm
  • python-idna-2.4-2.el7_9.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information