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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2013-252

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2013-252
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published August 22, 2013
Updated python3 packages fix security vulnerabilities: A denial of service flaw was found in the way SSL module implementation of Python 3 performed matching of the certificate's name in the case it contained many '*' wildcard characters. A remote attacker, able to obtain valid certificate with its name containing a lot of '*' wildcard characters could use this flaw to cause denial of service (excessive CPU consumption) by issuing request to validate such a certificate for / to an application using the Python's ssl.match_hostname() functionality (CVE-2013-2099). Ryan Sleevi of the Google Chrome Security Team has discovered that Python's SSL module doesn't handle NULL bytes inside subjectAltNames general names. This could lead to a breach when an application uses ssl.match_hostname() to match the hostname againt the certificate's subjectAltName's dNSName general names. (CVE-2013-4238). Additionally, a linking issue when compiling C extensions for Python 3 has been fixed in Mageia 3 (mga#9395). The CVE-2013-2099 issue also affects bzr, python-requests, python-tornado, python-pip, and python-virtualenv, and those have been updated as well.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiapython-pip0 (affected), 1.3.1-2.1.mga3 (unaffected)
Mageiabzr0 (affected), 2.5.1-1.1.mga2 (unaffected)
Mageiapython33.3.0-4.3.mga3 (unaffected), 0 (affected)
Mageiapython-virtualenv1.9.1-1.2.mga3 (unaffected), 0 (affected)
Mageiapython-tornado0 (affected), 2.2.1-1.1.mga2 (unaffected)
Mageiapython30 (affected), 3.2.3-1.5.mga2 (unaffected)
Mageiapython-tornado0 (affected), 2.3-2.1.mga3 (unaffected)
Mageiabzr0 (affected), 2.5.1-3.1.mga3 (unaffected)
Mageiapython-requests0 (affected), 0.13.5-2.1.mga3 (unaffected)

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