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High ALAS2-2019-1204 2 CVEs

Important: python3 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 2, 2019 · Updated Jun 13, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-9636: Python 2.7.x through 2.7.16 and 3.x through 3.7.2 is affected by: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding (with an incorrect netloc) during NFKC normalization. The impact is: Information disclosure (credentials, cookies, etc. that are cached against a given hostname). The components are: urllib.parse.urlsplit, urllib.parse.urlparse. The attack vector is: A specially crafted URL could be incorrectly parsed to locate cookies or authentication data and send that information to a different host than when parsed correctly. 1688543: CVE-2019-9636 python: Information Disclosure due to urlsplit improper NFKC normalization CVE-2018-20406: Modules/_pickle.c in Python before 3.7.1 has an integer overflow via a large LONG_BINPUT value that is mishandled during a "resize to twice the size" attempt. This issue might cause memory exhaustion, but is only relevant if the pickle format is used for serializing tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data. 1664509: CVE-2018-20406 python: Integer overflow in Modules/_pickle.c allows for memory exhaustion if serializing gigabytes of data

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python3 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-debug 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-debuginfo 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-devel 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-libs 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-test 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-tkinter 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-tools 0:3.7.3-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-20406.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-9636.html