Important: python38

Issue Overview:

An issue was found in the CPython tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class affecting versions 3.12.2, 3.11.8, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior.

The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances. (CVE-2023-6597)

Affected Packages:

python38

Issue Correction:
Run yum update python38 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    python38-libs-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    python38-debuginfo-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    python38-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    python38-tools-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    python38-debug-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    python38-devel-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    python38-test-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    python38-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    python38-debug-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    python38-tools-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    python38-test-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    python38-debuginfo-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    python38-libs-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    python38-devel-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    python38-3.8.5-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-6597

Mitre: CVE-2023-6597