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SUSE: CVE-2020-8492: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/30/2020
Created
03/06/2020
Added
03/03/2020
Modified
02/04/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_6-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_6-1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_7-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_7-1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_4m1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_4m1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_6m1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_6m1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_9-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-python
  • suse-upgrade-python-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python-base
  • suse-upgrade-python-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python-curses
  • suse-upgrade-python-demo
  • suse-upgrade-python-devel
  • suse-upgrade-python-doc
  • suse-upgrade-python-doc-pdf
  • suse-upgrade-python-gdbm
  • suse-upgrade-python-idle
  • suse-upgrade-python-rpm-macros
  • suse-upgrade-python-tk
  • suse-upgrade-python-xml
  • suse-upgrade-python3
  • suse-upgrade-python3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python3-base
  • suse-upgrade-python3-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python3-curses
  • suse-upgrade-python3-dbm
  • suse-upgrade-python3-devel
  • suse-upgrade-python3-doc
  • suse-upgrade-python3-doc-devhelp
  • suse-upgrade-python3-idle
  • suse-upgrade-python3-testsuite
  • suse-upgrade-python3-tk
  • suse-upgrade-python3-tools
  • suse-upgrade-python36
  • suse-upgrade-python36-base
  • suse-upgrade-python39
  • suse-upgrade-python39-base
  • suse-upgrade-python39-curses
  • suse-upgrade-python39-dbm
  • suse-upgrade-python39-devel
  • suse-upgrade-python39-idle
  • suse-upgrade-python39-tk
  • suse-upgrade-python39-tools
  • suse-upgrade-shared-python-startup

References

  • SUSE-SU-2020:0467-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:0510-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:0557-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:0854-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:14306-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:1524-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:3563-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:3865-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:3930-1
  • USN-4333-1
  • USN-4333-2
  • USN-4754-3
  • USN-5200-1
  • CVE-2020-8492
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