vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-5010: Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 31, 2019
Added
Mar 16, 2020
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-python
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