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Debian 8: DLA-1834-1 Critical: Python2.7 DoS and Data Leakage

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Essential security patches for Python 2.7 have been released tackling numerous flaws, with upgrade recommendations issued for all users.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python, an interactive high-level object-oriented language, including

Summary

CVE-2018-14647

Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash
salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct
denial of service attacks against Expat by constructing an XML
document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's
internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.

CVE-2019-5010

NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate.

CVE-2019-9636

Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding (with an incorrect netloc)
during NFKC normalization resulting in information disclosure
(credentials, cookies, etc. that are cached against a given
hostname). A specially crafted URL could be incorrectly parsed to
locate cookies or authentication data and send that information to
a different host than when parsed correctly.

CVE-2019-9740

An issue was discovered in urllib2 where CRLF injection is possible
if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: python2.7
Version: 2.7.9-2+deb8u3
CVE ID: CVE-2018-14647 CVE-2019-5010 CVE-2019-9636 CVE-2019-9740
Debian Bug: 921039 921040 924073

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