python-2.7.5-94.0.3.el7.AXS7

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python 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 (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC).

Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be
used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable
interface.

Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package.

This package provides the "python" executable; most of the actual implementation
is within the "python-libs" package.

Security Fix(es):

* CVE-2024-6232: fixed regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking
during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via
specifically-crafted tar archives.

CVE(s):
CVE-2024-6232
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. Regular expressions that allowed excessive backtracking during tarfile.TarFile header parsing are vulnerable to ReDoS via specifically-crafted tar archives.