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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for python27 (ALAS-2015-552) (CVE-2013-1752)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for python27 (ALAS-2015-552) (CVE-2013-1752)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/25/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/25/2015
Modified
07/09/2019

Description

It was discovered that multiple Python standard library modules implementing network protocols (such as httplib or smtplib) failed to restrict sizes of server responses. A malicious server could cause a client using one of the affected modules to consume an excessive amount of memory.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-test
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-tools

References

  • ALAS-2015-552

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