vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-1060: python2.7 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 26, 2018
Added
Sep 28, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-python2-7
Title
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