ALAS2-2025-2815

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2815
Advisory Released Date: 2025-04-01
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-04
Severity: Medium
Issue Overview:

Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. (CVE-2007-4559)

The Python standard library functions `urllib.parse.urlsplit` and `urlparse` accepted domain names that included square brackets which isn't valid according to RFC 3986. Square brackets are only meant to be used as delimiters for specifying IPv6 and IPvFuture hosts in URLs. This could result in differential parsing across the Python URL parser and other specification-compliant URL parsers. (CVE-2025-0938)


Affected Packages:

python3


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python3 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-libs-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-devel-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-tools-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-tkinter-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-test-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-debug-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64
    python3-debuginfo-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.aarch64

i686:
    python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-libs-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-devel-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-tools-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-tkinter-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-test-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-debug-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686
    python3-debuginfo-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.i686

src:
    python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.src

x86_64:
    python3-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-libs-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-devel-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-tools-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-tkinter-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-test-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-debug-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64
    python3-debuginfo-3.7.16-1.amzn2.0.14.x86_64

Changelog:

2025-04-04: CVE-2024-9287 was removed from this advisory

Additional References

Release Notes:  Amazon Linux 2 Release Notes

Red Hat: CVE-2007-4559, CVE-2025-0938

Mitre: CVE-2007-4559, CVE-2025-0938