Vulmon
Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1471
Advisory Release Date: 2020-07-31 19:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-08-05 06:35 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2020-8492
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2020-8492)
Affected Packages:
python, python3
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python to update your system.
Run yum update python3 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
python-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python-libs-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python-devel-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python-tools-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
tkinter-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python-test-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python-debug-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python-debuginfo-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-libs-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-devel-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-tools-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-tkinter-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-test-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-debug-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
python3-debuginfo-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
i686:
python-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python-libs-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python-devel-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python-tools-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
tkinter-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python-test-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python-debug-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python-debuginfo-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-libs-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-devel-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-tools-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-tkinter-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-test-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-debug-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
python3-debuginfo-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
src:
python-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.src
python3-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
python-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python-libs-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python-devel-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python-tools-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
tkinter-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python-test-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python-debug-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python-debuginfo-2.7.18-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-libs-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-devel-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-tools-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-tkinter-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-test-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-debug-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
python3-debuginfo-3.7.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64