Vulmon
Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1132
Advisory Release Date: 2018-12-20 00:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-01-12 03:23 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2018-14647
Issue Overview:
Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by contructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.(CVE-2018-14647)
Affected Packages:
python34, python36
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python34 to update your system.
Run yum update python36 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python34-devel-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.i686
python34-tools-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.i686
python34-test-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.i686
python34-debuginfo-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.i686
python34-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.i686
python34-libs-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.i686
python36-debug-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
python36-tools-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
python36-debuginfo-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
python36-test-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
python36-libs-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
python36-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
python36-devel-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.i686
src:
python34-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.src
python36-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python34-libs-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.x86_64
python34-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.x86_64
python34-debuginfo-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.x86_64
python34-tools-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.x86_64
python34-devel-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.x86_64
python34-test-3.4.9-1.40.amzn1.x86_64
python36-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
python36-debug-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
python36-devel-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
python36-tools-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
python36-test-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
python36-libs-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64
python36-debuginfo-3.6.7-1.10.amzn1.x86_64