openSUSE Leap 42.3: Security Advisory 2018:2712-1 Moderate: DoS
opensuse
September 14, 2018
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.
Description
This update for python3 provides the following fixes:
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2018-1061: Prevent catastrophic backtracking in the
difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. An attacker could have used this flaw to
cause denial of service (bsc#1088004).
- CVE-2018-1060: Prevent catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop()
method. An attacker could have used this flaw to cause denial of service
(bsc#1088009).
These non-security issues were fixed:
- Sort files and directories when creating tarfile archives so that they
are created in a more predictable way. (bsc#1086001)
- Add -fwrapv to OPTS (bsc#1107030)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.
Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1001=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
libpython3_4m1_0-3.4.6-12.6.1
libpython3_4m1_0-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-base-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-base-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-base-debugsource-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-curses-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-curses-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-dbm-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-dbm-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-debugsource-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-devel-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-devel-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-idle-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-testsuite-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-testsuite-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-tk-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-tk-debuginfo-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-tools-3.4.6-12.6.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):
libpython3_4m1_0-32bit-3.4.6-12.6.1
libpython3_4m1_0-debuginfo-32bit-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-32bit-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-base-32bit-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-base-debuginfo-32bit-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-debuginfo-32bit-3.4.6-12.6.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):
python3-doc-3.4.6-12.6.1
python3-doc-pdf-3.4.6-12.6.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1060.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1061.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086001
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1088004
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1088009
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107030
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2712-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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Topics Covered
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