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Medium ALAS2-2020-1483 1 CVE

Moderate: python security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 1, 2020 · Updated Sep 2, 2020

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-20907: In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation. 1856481: CVE-2019-20907 python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-debug 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-debuginfo 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-devel 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-libs 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-test 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-tools 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 tkinter 0:2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-20907.html