Vulmon
Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1936
Advisory Release Date: 2024-05-09 17:43 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-05-09 17:43 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An issue was found in the CPython `tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` class affecting versions 3.12.2, 3.11.8, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.
The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances. (CVE-2023-6597)
Affected Packages:
python38
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python38 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python38-libs-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
python38-debuginfo-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
python38-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
python38-tools-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
python38-debug-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
python38-devel-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
python38-test-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686
src:
python38-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python38-debug-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
python38-tools-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
python38-test-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
python38-debuginfo-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
python38-libs-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
python38-devel-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
python38-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64