SB2020100818 - Fedora 32 update for python34



SB2020100818 - Fedora 32 update for python34

Published: October 8, 2020 Updated: April 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2020100818
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20907)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop In Lib/tarfile.py in Python. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14422)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application improperly computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface classes within the Lib/ipaddress.py in Python. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack if an application is affected by the performance of a dictionary containing IPv4Interface or IPv6Interface objects, and this attacker can cause many dictionary entries to be created.


3) CRLF injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26116)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary data in server response.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of attacker-supplied data in "http.client". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application containing CR-LF characters and modify application behavior.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.