Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 619
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 619

Mageia: 2019-0135 Moderate: Python3 Denial Of Service Issues

mageia
Calendar Grey April 10, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia's security patch MGASA-2023-0457 addresses severe vulnerabilities in python3, fortifying defenses against potential exploits.
Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization

Summary

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 contructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM (CVE-2018-14647).
Modules/_pickle.c in Python before 3.5.7 has an integer overflow via a large LONG_BINPUT value that is mishandled during a "resize to twice the size" attempt. This issue might cause memory exhaustion, but is only relevant if the pickle format is used for serializing tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data (CVE-2018-20406).
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the certificate parsing code in Python. This causes a denial of service to applications when parsing specially crafted certificates. This vulnerability is unlikely to be triggered if application enables SSL/TLS certificate validation and accepts certificates only from trusted roo...

Read the Full Advisory

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23664

- https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2019/03/python-3.html

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/A7QEHDSATR6O6LCG44EN2DA4QDAYBYWW/

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/JSKPGPZQNTAULHW4UH63KGOOUIDE4RRB/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14647

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20406

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5010

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9636

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/python3-3.5.7-1.mga6

Publication date: 10 Apr 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0135.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-14647, CVE-2018-20406, CVE-2019-5010, CVE-2019-9636

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here