RLSA-2024:5533

Security

Mirrored from RHSA-2024:5533

Issued at: 2024-08-21

Updated at: 2024-08-21

Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2024:5533, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.

Synopsis

Important: python3.12-setuptools security update

Description

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python 3 distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python 3 packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software that requires pkg_resources.

Security Fix(es):

* pypa/setuptools: Remote code execution via download functions in the package_index module in pypa/setuptools (CVE-2024-6345)

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.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le

Rocky Linux 9 s390x

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64

Fixes

2297771

CVEs

CVE-2024-6345