RHEL 8 : python3 (RHSA-2019:3520)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 130548

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for python3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3520 advisory.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* python: NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate (CVE-2019-5010)

* python: CRLF injection via the query part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9740)

* python: CRLF injection via the path part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9947)

* python: Undocumented local_file protocol allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms (CVE-2019-9948)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL python3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:3520.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1031a6f1

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8d3b26b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3520

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1634784

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639531

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665514

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666519

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671353

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1688169

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695572

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701286

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1725721

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1731424

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744670

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745499

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745685

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1760106

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 130548

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3520.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9948

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-test, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:platform-python-debug

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5010, CVE-2019-9740, CVE-2019-9947, CVE-2019-9948

CWE: 113, 476, 749

RHSA: 2019:3520