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Debian Stretch: DLA-2337-1 Moderate: Python2.7 Security Issues

debian lts
Calendar Grey August 22, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Upgrade Python2.7 packages to fix multiple security threats and vulnerabilities identified in Debian LTS.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python2.7, an interactive high-level object-oriented language

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python2.7, an interactive
high-level object-oriented language.

CVE-2018-20852

By using a malicious server an attacker might steal cookies that are
meant for other domains.

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
first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in

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Package: python2.7
Version: 2.7.13-2+deb9u4
CVE ID: CVE-2018-20852 CVE-2019-5010 CVE-2019-9636 CVE-2019-9740

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