[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/python-pip: security bump to v25.2

Julien Olivain ju.o at free.fr
Thu Oct 2 20:25:59 UTC 2025


On 02/10/2025 17:06, Titouan Christophe via buildroot wrote:
> This fixes the following vulnerability:
> - CVE-2025-8869:
>     When extracting a tar archive pip may not check symbolic links 
> point
>     into the extraction directory if the tarfile module doesn't 
> implement
>     PEP 706. Note that upgrading pip to a "fixed" version for this
>     vulnerability doesn't fix all known vulnerabilities that are
>     remediated by using a Python version that implements PEP 706.  Note
>     that this is a vulnerability in pip's fallback implementation of 
> tar
>     extraction for Python versions that don't implement PEP 706 and
>     therefore are not secure to all vulnerabilities in the Python
>     'tarfile' module. If you're using a Python version that implements 
> PEP
>     706 then pip doesn't use the "vulnerable" fallback code.  
> Mitigations
>     include upgrading to a version of pip that includes the fix, 
> upgrading
>     to a Python version that implements PEP 706 (Python >=3.9.17,
>     >=3.10.12, >=3.11.4, or >=3.12), applying the linked patch, or
>     inspecting source distributions (sdists) before installation as is
>     already a best-practice.
>     https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8869
> 
> Signed-off-by: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe at mind.be>

Applied to master, thanks.


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