cpython: python: Python zipfile End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not checked

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 wou...

RockyLinux 10 : python3.12 (RLSA-2025:23940)

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:23940 advisory. cpython: python: Python zipfile End of Central Directory EOCD Locator record offset not checked CVE-2025-8291 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

RockyLinux 8 : python39:3.9 (RLSA-2025:23530)

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:23530 advisory. python: Invalid value for OpenSSL API may cause Buffer over-read when NPN is used CVE-2024-5642 python: Virtual environment venv activation scripts don'...

Medium: python3.11

Issue Overview: 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...