RHSA-2026:1922 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python3.11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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):

• cpython: Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client (CVE-2025-13836)
• cpython: python: cpython: Quadratic algorithm in xml.dom.minidom leads to denial of service (CVE-2025-12084)

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 Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2418078 - CVE-2025-13836 cpython: Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client
• BZ - 2418655 - CVE-2025-12084 cpython: python: cpython: Quadratic algorithm in xml.dom.minidom leads to denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2025-12084
• CVE-2025-13836

References

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