Issued:
2025-07-07
Updated:
2025-07-07

RHSA-2025:10399 - Important: python3.9 security update

Synopsis

Important: python3.9 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for python3.9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

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):

  • cpython: Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (CVE-2025-4435)

  • cpython: python: Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory (CVE-2024-12718)

  • cpython: python: Extraction filter bypass for linking outside extraction directory (CVE-2025-4330)

  • python: cpython: Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow (CVE-2025-4517)

  • cpython: python: Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction directory (CVE-2025-4138)

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 for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support9.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support9.4ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support9.4s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates9.4s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support9.4aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates9.4aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.4ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS9.4x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support9.4x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support9.4ppc64le
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support9.4s390x
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support9.4aarch64

Updated Packages

  • python3-debug-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-libs-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-debug-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-test-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3.9-debugsource-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-tkinter-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3-tkinter-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-devel-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3-idle-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-debug-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-idle-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3-debug-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3-debug-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3-tkinter-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3-idle-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3-test-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-devel-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-libs-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3-test-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3-test-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-tkinter-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3-tkinter-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-devel-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3-libs-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-devel-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-libs-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.aarch64.rpm
  • python3.9-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.src.rpm
  • python3-idle-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-test-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3.9-debugsource-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python3.9-debugsource-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.s390x.rpm
  • python3.9-debugsource-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-libs-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-devel-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-idle-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.i686.rpm
  • python-unversioned-command-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.noarch.rpm
  • python3.9-debuginfo-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.x86_64.rpm
  • python3.9-debugsource-3.9.18-3.el9_4.8.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information