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Missing Initialization of Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-doc-pdf  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-PYTHONDOCPDF-2728314
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Jan 2020
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Introduced: 24 Jan 2020

CVE-2018-14647  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

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

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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