CVE-2018-1060

Description

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03951en_us

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSKPGPZQNTAULHW4UH63KGOOUIDE4RRB/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEZ5IQT7OF7Q2NCGIVABOWYGKO7YU3NJ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/46PVWY5LFP4BRPG3BVQ5QEEFYBVEXHCK/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00031.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00030.html

https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-6-5-release-candidate-1

https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-6-release-candidate-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1060

https://bugs.python.org/issue32981

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3041

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042001

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3