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Debian 11: DLA-3966-1 critical: pypy3 multiple security issues

debian lts
Calendar Grey November 26, 2024
Dist Debian Esm H88
The Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3966-2 covers various security flaws found in pypy3, such as potential denial of service and additional risks.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in pypy3, an alternative implementation of the Python 3.x language

Summary

CVE-2020-10735

A flaw was found in Python. In algorithms with quadratic time
complexity using non-binary bases, when using int("text"), a system
could take 50ms to parse an int string with 100,000 digits and 5s
for 1,000,000 digits (float, decimal, int.from_bytes(), and int()
for binary bases 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 are not affected). The highest
threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVE-2020-29651

A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc
component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by
attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by
supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.
python-py is a part of the pypy3 distribution.

CVE-2021-3737

A flaw was found in Python. An improperly handled HTTP response in the
HTTP client code of Python may allow a remote attacker, who controls
the HTTP server, to make the client script enter an infinite loop,

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Package: pypy3
Version: 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u4
CVE ID: CVE-2020-10735 CVE-2020-29651 CVE-2021-3737 CVE-2021-28861

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