CVE-2024-5569

Publication date 9 July 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the jaraco/zipp library, affecting all versions prior to 3.19.1. The vulnerability is triggered when processing a specially crafted zip file that leads to an infinite loop. This issue also impacts the zipfile module of CPython, as features from the third-party zipp library are later merged into CPython, and the affected code is identical in both projects. The infinite loop can be initiated through the use of functions affecting the `Path` module in both zipp and zipfile, such as `joinpath`, the overloaded division operator, and `iterdir`. Although the infinite loop is not resource exhaustive, it prevents the application from responding. The vulnerability was addressed in version 3.19.1 of jaraco/zipp.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-zipp 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.0.0-6ubuntu0.1
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.0.0-3ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.0.0-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
python-zipp

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6906-1
    • python-zipp vulnerability
    • 24 July 2024

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