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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1427
Advisory Release Date: 2020-08-27 00:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-08-31 20:45 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2019-20907
Issue Overview:
In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, 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-2019-20907)
Affected Packages:
python27
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python27 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
python27-tools-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.i686
python27-test-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.i686
python27-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.i686
python27-debuginfo-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.i686
python27-devel-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.i686
python27-libs-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.i686
src:
python27-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python27-debuginfo-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.x86_64
python27-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.x86_64
python27-test-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.x86_64
python27-devel-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.x86_64
python27-libs-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.x86_64
python27-tools-2.7.18-2.139.amzn1.x86_64