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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2013-252
GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2013-252
Advisory Published
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
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | python-pip | 0 (affected), 1.3.1-2.1.mga3 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | bzr | 0 (affected), 2.5.1-1.1.mga2 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | python3 | 3.3.0-4.3.mga3 (unaffected), 0 (affected) | — |
| Mageia | python-virtualenv | 1.9.1-1.2.mga3 (unaffected), 0 (affected) | — |
| Mageia | python-tornado | 0 (affected), 2.2.1-1.1.mga2 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | python3 | 0 (affected), 3.2.3-1.5.mga2 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | python-tornado | 0 (affected), 2.3-2.1.mga3 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | bzr | 0 (affected), 2.5.1-3.1.mga3 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | python-requests | 0 (affected), 0.13.5-2.1.mga3 (unaffected) | — |
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