USN-5821-1: wheel vulnerability

Publication date

24 January 2023

Overview

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


Packages

  • wheel - built-package format for Python

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.

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

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.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic python3-wheel –  0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 jammy python3-wheel –  0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 focal python3-wheel –  0.34.2-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic python-wheel –  0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1
python3-wheel –  0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1
14.04 trusty python-wheel –  0.24.0-1~ubuntu1.1+esm1  
python3-wheel –  0.24.0-1~ubuntu1.1+esm1  

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