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Medium ALAS2-2019-1368 1 CVE

Moderate: python security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 19, 2019 · Updated Nov 22, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-16056: An issue was discovered in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.5.7, 3.6.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4. The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain multiple @ characters. An application that uses the email module and implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a message could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be denied. An attack may be the same as in CVE-2019-11340; however, this CVE applies to Python more generally. 99999: CVE-2019-16056 python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses

Fixed packages 16

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-debug 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-debuginfo 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-devel 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-libs 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-test 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-tools 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python3 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-debug 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-debuginfo 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-devel 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-libs 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-test 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-tkinter 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-tools 0:3.7.4-1.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 tkinter 0:2.7.16-4.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-16056.html