important: cloud-init/python security update
important
An update for cloud-init/python is now available for NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02.
NewStart Security has rated this update as having a security impact of important. A Common Vunlnerability Scoring System(CVSS)base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVElink(s) in the References section.
cloud-init:
python:
Security Fix(es):
cloud-init: An access permissions flaw was found in cloud-init. When a non-x86 platform is detected, cloud-init grants root access to a hardcoded URL with a local IP address, which creates a security exposure.(CVE-2024-6174)
cloud-init: bugfix
python: The 'tarfile' module would still apply normalization of AREGTYPE blocks to DIRTYPE, even while processing a multi-block member such as GNUTYPE_LONGNAME or GNUTYPE_LONGLINK. This could result in a crafted tar archive being misinterpreted by the tarfile module compared to other implementations.(CVE-2025-13462)
python: A flaw was found in Python. When a separating comma ends up on a folded line during an address list folding of email headers, the comma is unintentionally unicode encoded. The expected behavior is that the separating comma remains unencoded. This can result in the address header being misinterpreted by some mail servers.(CVE-2025-1795)
python: A stack overflow flaw has been discovered in the python pyexpat module. When an Expat parser with a registered ElementDeclHandler parses an inline document type definition containing a deeply nested content model a C stack overflow occurs. This will result in a program crash.(CVE-2026-4224)
python: An injection flaw has been discovered in Python. When using http.cookies.Morsel, user-controlled cookie values and parameters can allow injecting HTTP headers into messages. Patch rejects all control characters within cookie names, values, and parameters.(CVE-2026-0672)
python: A flaw was found in cpython. This vulnerability allows impacted availability via a quadratic algorithm in `xml.dom.minidom` methods, such as `appendChild()`, when building excessively nested documents due to a dependency on `_clear_id_cache()`(CVE-2025-12084)
python: A flaw was found in the http.client module in the Python standard library. When reading an HTTP response from a server, if no read amount is specified, the default behavior will be to use Content-Length. This issue allows a malicious server to cause the client to read large amounts of data into memory, potentially causing memory allocations errors, swapping, out-of-memory conditions or even system freezes.(CVE-2025-13836)
python: Missing newline filtering has been discovered in Python. User-controlled header names and values containing newlines can allow injecting HTTP headers.(CVE-2026-0865)
python: A flaw was found in CPython. This vulnerability allows a local user with low privileges to bypass security auditing mechanisms. The issue occurs because the SourcelessFileLoader component, responsible for handling older Python compiled files (.pyc), does not properly trigger system audit events. This oversight could enable malicious activities to go undetected, compromising the integrity of the system.(CVE-2026-2297)
python: A flaw was found in the email module in the Python standard library. When serializing an email message, the BytesGenerator class fails to properly quote newline characters for email headers. This issue is exploitable when the LiteralHeader class is used as it does not respect email folding rules, allowing an attacker to inject email headers and potentially modify message recipients or the email body, and spoof sender information.(CVE-2026-1299)
python: A flaw was found in Python. The `webbrowser.open()` API, used to launch web browsers, does not properly sanitize input. This allows a remote attacker to craft a malicious URL containing leading dashes. When such a URL is opened, certain web browsers may interpret these dashes as command-line options, which could lead to unexpected behavior, information disclosure, or potentially arbitrary code execution, impacting the integrity of the system.(CVE-2026-4519)
python: A zip file handling flaw has been discovered in the python standard library `zipfile` module. The 'zipfile' module would not check the validity of the ZIP64 End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset value would not be used to locate the ZIP64 EOCD record, instead the ZIP64 EOCD record would be assumed to be the previous record in the ZIP archive. This could be abused to create ZIP archives that are handled differently by the 'zipfile' module compared to other ZIP implementations.(CVE-2025-8291)
python: Missing newline filtering has been discovered in Python. User-controlled data URLs parsed by urllib.request.DataHandler allow injecting headers through newlines in the data URL mediatype.(CVE-2025-15282)
python: A flaw was found in the plistlib module in the Python standard library. The amount of data to read from a Plist file is specified in the file itself. This issue allows a specially crafted Plist file to cause an application to allocate a large amount of memory, potentially resulting in allocations errors, swapping, out-of-memory conditions or even system freezes.(CVE-2025-13837)
python: A flaw was found in the `python` and `expat` components. Insufficient entropy in the hash-flooding protection mechanism of `xml.parsers.expat` and `xml.etree.ElementTree` allows a remote attacker to craft a malicious XML document. This crafted document can trigger a hash flooding attack, leading to a denial of service (DoS) condition.(CVE-2026-7210)
python: A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in Python's html.parser.HTMLParser class. When processing specially malformed HTML input, the parsing runtime can become quadratic with respect to the input size. This significantly increased processing time can lead to excessive resource consumption, ultimately causing a denial-of-service condition in applications that rely on this parser.(CVE-2025-6069)
python: A vulnerability has been identified in CPython's bytes.decode() function when used with the "unicode_escape" encoding and the "ignore" or "replace" error handling modes. This flaw can result in the incorrect decoding of byte strings. While this may not directly lead to traditional security breaches like data exfiltration, the resulting unexpected program behavior could introduce instability, logic errors, or unintended side effects within applications that rely on this specific decoding functionality.(CVE-2025-4516)
python: Missing character filtering has been discovered in Python. When folding a long comment in an email header containing exclusively unfoldable characters, the parenthesis would not be preserved. This could be used for injecting headers into email messages where addresses are user-controlled and not sanitized.(CVE-2025-11468)
python: A flaw was found in the poplib module in the Python standard library. The poplib module does not reject control characters, such as newlines, in user-controlled input passed to POP3 commands. This issue allows an attacker to inject additional commands to be executed in the POP3 server.(CVE-2025-15367)
python: The “socket” module provides a pure-Python fallback to the socket.socketpair() function for platforms that don’t support AF_UNIX, such as Windows. This pure-Python implementation uses AF_INET or AF_INET6 to create a local connected pair of sockets. The connection between the two sockets was not verified before passing the two sockets back to the user, which leaves the server socket vulnerable to a connection race from a malicious local peer. Platforms that support AF_UNIX such as Linux and macOS are not affected by this vulnerability. Versions prior to CPython 3.5 are not affected due to the vulnerable API not being included.(CVE-2024-3219)
python: A flaw was found in the base64 module in the Python standard library. The b64decode, standard_b64decode and urlsafe_b64decode functions will always accept the '+' and '/' characters even when an alternative base64 alphabet is specified via the altchars parameter that excludes them. This input validation bypass allows malformed or unexpected data to pass through decoding filters, potentially causing logical errors or data integrity issues in applications relying on strict character sets.(CVE-2025-12781)
python: bugfix
Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
http://security.gd-linux.com/how_to_apply_patch.html
Remember the build tag is 7.02.07B5.