Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-924
Advisory Released Date: 2025-04-01
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-01
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)
Affected Packages:
python3.11-pip
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update python3.11-pip --releasever 2023.7.20250331 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-924 --releasever 2023.7.20250331 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
New Packages:
noarch:
python3.11-pip-wheel-22.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.6.noarch
python3.11-pip-22.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.6.noarch
src:
python3.11-pip-22.3.1-2.amzn2023.0.6.src