Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting platform-python package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.3% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-PLATFORMPYTHON-1948200
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 11 Mar 2019
Introduced: 11 Mar 2019
CVE-2019-9674 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:8 platform-python.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python package and not the platform-python package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
Lib/zipfile.py in Python through 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a ZIP bomb.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0003/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9674
- https://bugs.python.org/issue36260
- https://bugs.python.org/issue36462
- https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/zipfile.py
- https://python-security.readthedocs.io/security.html#archives-and-zip-bomb
- https://www.python.org/news/security/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00041.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1/