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Medium ALAS2-2020-1471 2 CVEs

Moderate: python security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 31, 2020 · Updated Oct 25, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-48560: A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. CVE-2020-8492: 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.

Fixed packages 16

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python-debug 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python-debuginfo 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python-devel 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python-libs 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python-test 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python-tools 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-debug 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-debuginfo 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-devel 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-libs 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-test 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-tkinter 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 python3-tools 0:3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 tkinter 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-8492.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48560.html