Security update for python36

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02297-1
Release Date: 2025-07-11T16:03:57Z
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2024-12718 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2024-12718 ( NVD ): 10.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  • CVE-2024-12718 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4138 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4138 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4330 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4330 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4435 ( SUSE ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4435 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2025-4516 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  • CVE-2025-4516 ( SUSE ): 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2025-4516 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  • CVE-2025-4517 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • CVE-2025-4517 ( SUSE ): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2025-4517 ( NVD ): 9.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
  • CVE-2025-6069 ( SUSE ): 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
  • CVE-2025-6069 ( SUSE ): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2025-6069 ( NVD ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves seven vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python36 fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2024-12718: Fixed extraction filter bypass that allowed file metadata modification outside extraction directory (bsc#1244056)
  • CVE-2025-4138: Fixed issue that might allow symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata (bsc#1244059)
  • CVE-2025-4330: Fixed extraction filter bypass that allowed linking outside extraction directory (bsc#1244060)
  • CVE-2025-4435: Fixed Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (bsc#1244061)
  • CVE-2025-4516: Fixed denial of service due to DecodeError handling vulnerability (bsc#1243273)
  • CVE-2025-4517: Fixed arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter="data" (bsc#1244032)
  • CVE-2025-6069: Fixed worst case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs with HTMLParser (bsc#1244705)

Other fixes: - Add python36-* provides/obsoletes to enable SLE-12 -> SLE-15 migration (bsc#1233012) - Update vendored ipaddress module to 3.8 equivalent - Limit buffer size for IPv6 address parsing (bsc#1244401).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-2297=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-2297=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • python36-devel-3.6.15-84.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-debugsource-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-debuginfo-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-base-3.6.15-84.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-base-debuginfo-3.6.15-84.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (s390x x86_64)
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-32bit-3.6.15-84.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-32bit-3.6.15-84.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-32bit-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-devel-3.6.15-84.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-debugsource-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-3.6.15-84.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-32bit-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-debuginfo-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-base-3.6.15-84.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-3.6.15-84.1
    • python36-base-debuginfo-3.6.15-84.1

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