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CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-8492: Moderate: python3 security update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-8492: Moderate: python3 security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/30/2020
Created
10/01/2020
Added
10/01/2020
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-cython-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-numpy-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-platform-python
  • centos-upgrade-platform-python-debug
  • centos-upgrade-platform-python-devel
  • centos-upgrade-python-cffi-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python-cryptography-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python-lxml-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python-markupsafe-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python-psutil-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python-psycopg2-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python3
  • centos-upgrade-python3-debug
  • centos-upgrade-python3-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python3-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python3-devel
  • centos-upgrade-python3-idle
  • centos-upgrade-python3-libs
  • centos-upgrade-python3-test
  • centos-upgrade-python3-tkinter
  • centos-upgrade-python38
  • centos-upgrade-python38-asn1crypto
  • centos-upgrade-python38-babel
  • centos-upgrade-python38-cffi
  • centos-upgrade-python38-cffi-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-chardet
  • centos-upgrade-python38-cryptography
  • centos-upgrade-python38-cryptography-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-cython
  • centos-upgrade-python38-cython-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-debug
  • centos-upgrade-python38-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-python38-devel
  • centos-upgrade-python38-idle
  • centos-upgrade-python38-idna
  • centos-upgrade-python38-jinja2
  • centos-upgrade-python38-libs
  • centos-upgrade-python38-lxml
  • centos-upgrade-python38-lxml-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-markupsafe
  • centos-upgrade-python38-markupsafe-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-mod_wsgi
  • centos-upgrade-python38-numpy
  • centos-upgrade-python38-numpy-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-numpy-doc
  • centos-upgrade-python38-numpy-f2py
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pip
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pip-wheel
  • centos-upgrade-python38-ply
  • centos-upgrade-python38-psutil
  • centos-upgrade-python38-psutil-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-psycopg2
  • centos-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-doc
  • centos-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-tests
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pycparser
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pymysql
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pysocks
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pytz
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pyyaml
  • centos-upgrade-python38-pyyaml-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-requests
  • centos-upgrade-python38-rpm-macros
  • centos-upgrade-python38-scipy
  • centos-upgrade-python38-scipy-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-python38-setuptools
  • centos-upgrade-python38-setuptools-wheel
  • centos-upgrade-python38-six
  • centos-upgrade-python38-test
  • centos-upgrade-python38-tkinter
  • centos-upgrade-python38-urllib3
  • centos-upgrade-python38-wheel
  • centos-upgrade-python38-wheel-wheel
  • centos-upgrade-pyyaml-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-scipy-debugsource

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