USN-5821-2: wheel vulnerability

24 January 2023

wheel could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • wheel - built-package format for Python

Details

USN-5821-1 fixed a vulnerability in wheel. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:

Sebastian Chnelik discovered that wheel incorrectly handled
certain file names when validated against a regex expression.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
If installed, python-pip and python3-pip will also need to be updated.

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