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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202405-10">
    <title>Setuptools: Denial of Service</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools, which can lead to denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">setuptools</product>
    <announced>2024-05-05</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-05-05</revised>
    <bug>879813</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="dev-python/setuptools" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">65.5.1</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">65.5.1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Setuptools is a manager for Python packages.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools. See the impact field.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>An inefficiency in a regular expression may end in a denial of service if an user is fetching malicious HTML from a package in PyPI or a custom PackageIndex page.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Setuptools users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/setuptools-65.5.1"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40897">CVE-2022-40897</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-05-05T06:37:49.107714Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-05-05T06:37:49.110409Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>