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Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-pymongo  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHONPYMONGO-1784038
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Sept 2018
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Introduced: 22 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-14647  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-665  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-335  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-pymongo package and not the python-pymongo package as distributed by RHEL.

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. The vulnerability exists in Python versions 3.7.0, 3.6.0 through 3.6.6, 3.5.0 through 3.5.6, 3.4.0 through 3.4.9, 2.7.0 through 2.7.15.

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