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Medium ALAS2-2023-1979 1 CVE

Moderate: python2-setuptools security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 2, 2023 · Updated Mar 7, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-40897: Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python2-setuptools 0:41.2.0-4.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2022-40897

    pypa/setuptools vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

    Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py.

    python3 python-pip setuptools setuptools Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux PyPI

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-40897.html