Resource Exhaustion Affecting python3-devel package, versions <3.6.15-150300.10.37.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-PYTHON3DEVEL-3151219
  • published1 Dec 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2022

Introduced: 29 Nov 2022

CVE-2020-8492  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 python3-devel to version 3.6.15-150300.10.37.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-devel package and not the python3-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.

References

CVSS Scores

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