Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0084 Moderate: Python TLS Denial Of Service
mageia
February 14, 2019
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.7.2
Summary
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509
certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.7.2. A specially crafted
X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial
of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted
certificates to trigger this vulnerability (CVE-2019-5010).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24340
- http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2019-February/005089.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5010
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/python-2.7.15-1.2.mga6
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Publication date: 14 Feb 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0084.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-5010
Topics Covered
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