USN-7280-2 fixed vulnerabilities in Python. It was discovered that the fixes for CVE-2025-0938 and CVE-2024-11168 were incorrectly applied on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a result. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled parsing domain names that included square brackets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack.
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"availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
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