Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting platform-python-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.3% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHONDEVEL-1337793
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 11 Mar 2019

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 platform-python-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python-devel package and not the platform-python-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

6.5 medium