vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-14853: Security patch for python-ecdsa (ALAS-2023-1800)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 4, 2019
Added
Aug 9, 2023
Modified
Aug 9, 2023

Description

An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa before version 0.13.3. During signature decoding, malformed DER signatures could raise unexpected exceptions (or no exceptions at all), which could lead to a denial of service.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-python-ecdsa
Title
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