A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools, which can lead to denial of service.
| Package | Arch | Vulnerable | Unaffected |
|---|---|---|---|
| dev-python/setuptools | * | < 65.5.1 | >= 65.5.1 |
Setuptools is a manager for Python packages.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools. See the impact field.
An inefficiency in a regular expression may end in a denial of service if an user is fetching malicious HTML from a package in PyPI or a custom PackageIndex page.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Setuptools users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/setuptools-65.5.1"
A vulnerability in Setuptools could allow remote attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
| Package | Arch | Vulnerable | Unaffected |
|---|---|---|---|
| dev-python/setuptools | * | < 0.8-r1 | >= 0.8-r1 |
Setuptools is a manager for Python packages.
Setuptools does not check the integrity of downloaded Python packages.
A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Setuptools users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/setuptools-0.8-r1"