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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-8492: Python: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-8492: Python: Denial of service

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/30/2020
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/15/2020
Modified
05/28/2021

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-python

References

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