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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-13757: Security patch for python-rsa (ALAS-2020-1421)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-13757: Security patch for python-rsa (ALAS-2020-1421)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/01/2020
Created
09/02/2020
Added
09/01/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

Python-RSA before 4.1 ignores leading '\0' bytes during decryption of ciphertext. This could conceivably have a security-relevant impact, e.g., by helping an attacker to infer that an application uses Python-RSA, or if the length of accepted ciphertext affects application behavior (such as by causing excessive memory allocation).

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python-rsa

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