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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1108
Advisory Release Date: 2018-12-06 00:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-12-07 00:46 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.(CVE-2018-1060)
A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.(CVE-2018-1061)
Affected Packages:
python27
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python27 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python27-libs-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.i686
python27-debuginfo-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.i686
python27-test-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.i686
python27-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.i686
python27-devel-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.i686
python27-tools-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.i686
src:
python27-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python27-debuginfo-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.x86_64
python27-libs-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.x86_64
python27-devel-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.x86_64
python27-tools-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.x86_64
python27-test-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.x86_64
python27-2.7.15-1.124.amzn1.x86_64