| Name | CVE-2024-6923 |
| Description | There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. The email module didn’t properly quote newlines for email headers when serializing an email message allowing for header injection when an email is serialized. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3980-1, DLA-4354-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pypy3 (PTS) | bookworm | 7.3.11+dfsg-2+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 7.3.19+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 7.3.23+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| python3.11 (PTS) | bookworm | 3.11.2-6+deb12u8 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 3.11.2-6+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| python3.13 (PTS) | trixie | 3.13.5-2+deb13u5 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 3.13.15-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - python2.7 <ignored> (Unsupported in Bullseye, only included to build a few applications)
[bookworm] - pypy3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121650
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/122233
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4aaa4259b5a6e664b7316a4d60bdec7ee0f124d0 (v3.13.0rc2)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4766d1200fdf8b6728137aa2927a297e224d5fa7 (v3.12.5)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7c0f09e69e950cf3c5ada9dbde93898eb975533 (v3.11.10)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/06f28dc236708f72871c64d4bc4b4ea144c50147 (v3.10.15)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7be505d137a22528cb0fc004422c0081d5d90e6 (v3.9.20)