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Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0451 Moderate: Python Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2020-0452 tackles security flaws within various Python libraries, rectifying several vulnerabilities affecting Mageia.
It was discovered that incorrectly handled certain ZIP files

Summary

It was discovered that incorrectly handled certain ZIP files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2019-9674).
It was discovered that Python documentation had a misleading information. A security issue could be possibly caused by wrong assumptions of this information (CVE-2019-17514).
It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain TAR archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2019-20907).
It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-8492).
It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain IP values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-14422).
It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain character sequences. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform CRLF injection (CVE-2020-26116).
The CVE-2020-14422 is...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26268

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4428-1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4333-1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4581-1

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/BW4GCLQISJCOEGQNIMVUZDQMIY6RR6CC/

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4273

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4299

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4433

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9674

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17514

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20907

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8492

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14422

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26116

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/python-2.7.18-1.1.mga7

- 7/core/python3-3.7.9-1.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 08 Dec 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0451.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-9674, CVE-2019-17514, CVE-2019-20907, CVE-2020-8492, CVE-2020-14422, CVE-2020-26116

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