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SUSE: 2018:3156-1 Moderate: Python Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Fix for perl addresses a vulnerability that could lead to system interruption. Protect your infrastructure by applying this update.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for python fixes the following issue: - CVE-2018-14647: 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 constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM (bsc#1109847) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-python-13818=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-python-13818=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update python SUSE Linux Enterprise Expat

References

#1109847

Cross- CVE-2018-14647

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14647.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109847

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update python SUSE Linux Enterprise Expat

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