RHSA-2025:23342 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python3.9 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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

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):

• python: Invalid value for OpenSSL API may cause Buffer over-read when NPN is used (CVE-2024-5642)
• cpython: Python HTMLParser quadratic complexity (CVE-2025-6069)
• cpython: python: Python zipfile End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not checked (CVE-2025-8291)
• python: Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template (CVE-2025-6075)

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2294682 - CVE-2024-5642 python: Invalid value for OpenSSL API may cause Buffer over-read when NPN is used
• BZ - 2373234 - CVE-2025-6069 cpython: Python HTMLParser quadratic complexity
• BZ - 2402342 - CVE-2025-8291 cpython: python: Python zipfile End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not checked
• BZ - 2408891 - CVE-2025-6075 python: Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template
• RHEL-128538 - Rebase Python 3.9 in RHEL 9 to 3.9.25

CVEs

• CVE-2024-5642
• CVE-2025-6069
• CVE-2025-6075
• CVE-2025-8291

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate