USN-8221-1: wheel vulnerability
Publication date
29 April 2026
Overview
wheel could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- wheel - Command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files
Details
It was discovered that wheel did not correctly handle certain file paths.
If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that wheel did not correctly handle certain file paths.
If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 24.04 LTS noble | python-wheel-common – 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | ||
| python3-wheel – 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| python3-wheel-whl – 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
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