Vulmon
Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2174
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-20 17:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-25 23:06 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A vulnerability was found in the way the ipaddress python module computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface classes. This flaw allows an attacker to create many dictionary entries, due to the performance of a dictionary containing the IPv4Interface or IPv6Interface objects, possibly resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-14422)
Affected Packages:
python-ipaddress
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-ipaddress to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
python-ipaddress-1.0.16-2.amzn2.0.2.noarch
src:
python-ipaddress-1.0.16-2.amzn2.0.2.src