Bug 2373252

Summary:	CVE-2025-6069 python3.6: Python HTMLParser quadratic complexity [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component:	python3.6	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	42	CC:	cstratak, lbalhar, mhroncok, python-maint, python-packagers-sig, torsava, vstinner
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Bug Blocks:	2373234

Description Jon Moroney 2025-06-17 16:25:28 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373234

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Lumír Balhar 2025-08-11 10:27:09 UTC

We (Python-maint team) have decided not to proactively fix CVEs that are not present or requested to be fixed in RHEL for EOL Python interpreters that are in Fedora only for testing purposes.