SB2020110514 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for the python38:3.8 module
Published: November 5, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20477)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to otherwise restricted functionality.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions in the "load" and "load_all" functions. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to the application.
2) 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.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1747)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing untrusted YAML files passed via the "full_load" method or with the "FullLoader" loader. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and execute arbitrary code by abusing the python/object/new constructor.
4) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8492)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler when processing HTTP responses. A remote attacker who controls a HTTP server can send a specially crafted HTTP response to the client application and conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack.
5) 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.