DLA-3432-1

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/dla-osv/DLA-3432-1.json

Related

• CVE-2015-20107
• CVE-2019-20907
• CVE-2020-26116
• CVE-2020-8492
• CVE-2021-3177
• CVE-2021-3733
• CVE-2021-3737
• CVE-2021-4189
• CVE-2022-45061

Published

2023-05-24T00:00:00Z

Modified

2023-06-28T06:30:36.211787Z

Details

Multiple security issues were discovered in Python, an interactive high-level object-oriented language. An attacker may cause command injection, denial of service (DoS), request smuggling and port scanning.

• CVE-2015-20107 The mailcap module does not add escape characters into commands discovered in the system mailcap file. This may allow attackers to inject shell commands into applications that call mailcap.findmatch with untrusted input (if they lack validation of user-provided filenames or arguments).
• CVE-2019-20907 In Lib/tarfile.py, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.
• CVE-2020-8492 Python allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.
• CVE-2020-26116 http.client allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of HTTPConnection.request.
• CVE-2021-3177 Python has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf is used unsafely.
• CVE-2021-3733 There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the server to the client.
• CVE-2021-3737 An improperly handled HTTP response in the HTTP client code of python may allow a remote attacker, who controls the HTTP server, to make the client script enter an infinite loop, consuming CPU time.
• CVE-2021-4189 The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client library in PASV (passive) mode trusts the host from the PASV response by default. This flaw allows an attacker to set up a malicious FTP server that can trick FTP clients into connecting back to a given IP address and port. This vulnerability could lead to FTP client scanning ports. For the rare user who wants the previous behavior, set a trust\_server\_pasv\_ipv4\_address attribute on your ftplib.FTP instance to True.
• CVE-2022-45061 An unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder, such that a crafted, unreasonably long name being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.16-2+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your python2.7 packages.

For the detailed security status of python2.7 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/python2.7

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

References

• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3432