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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-8492: python3 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-8492: python3 security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/30/2020
Created
03/26/2020
Added
03/24/2020
Modified
03/24/2020

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-test

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