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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-1060: python2 Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-1060: python2 Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/18/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/24/2018
Modified
01/17/2020

Description

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-python2
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-python3

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