USN-5821-2: wheel vulnerability
24 January 2023
wheel could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04
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python-wheel
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0.29.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
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python3-wheel
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0.29.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
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.
References
Related notices
- USN-5821-1: wheel, python-wheel-common, python-wheel, python3-wheel, python3-wheel-whl
- USN-5821-3: python3-pip, python3-pip-whl, python-pip, python-pip-whl