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Medium ALAS2-2023-2174 1 CVE

Moderate: python-ipaddress security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 20, 2023 · Updated Jul 25, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-14422: A vulnerability was found in the way the ipaddress python module computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface classes. This flaw allows an attacker to create many dictionary entries, due to the performance of a dictionary containing the IPv4Interface or IPv6Interface objects, possibly resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python-ipaddress 0:1.0.16-2.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-14422.html