pip vulnerability
Summary
USN-8344-1 introduced a regression in pip. This update provides a complete fix for this issue.. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that pip's bundled urllib3 library improperly handled streaming decompression of highly compressed data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause pip to consume excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2025-66471) Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 24.04, 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2025-66471.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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