FreeBSD : Python -- multiple vulnerabilities (2cb21232-fb32-11ea-a929-a4bf014bf5f7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140678

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Python reports :

bpo-39603: Prevent http header injection by rejecting control characters in http.client.putrequest(...).

bpo-29778: Ensure python3.dll is loaded from correct locations when Python is embedded (CVE-2020-15523).

bpo-41004: CVE-2020-14422: The __hash__() methods of ipaddress.IPv4Interface and ipaddress.IPv6Interface incorrectly generated constant hash values of 32 and 128 respectively. This resulted in always causing hash collisions. The fix uses hash() to generate hash values for the tuple of (address, mask length, network address).

bpo-39073: Disallow CR or LF in email.headerregistry.Address arguments to guard against header injection attacks.

bpo-38576: Disallow control characters in hostnames in http.client, addressing CVE-2019-18348. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause a InvalidURL to be raised.

bpo-39503: CVE-2020-8492: The AbstractBasicAuthHandler class of the urllib.request module uses an inefficient regular expression which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service. Fix the regex to prevent the catastrophic backtracking. Vulnerability reported by Ben Caller and Matt Schwager.

bpo-38945: Newline characters have been escaped when performing uu encoding to prevent them from overflowing into to content section of the encoded file. This prevents malicious or accidental modification of data during the decoding process.

bpo-38804: Fixes a ReDoS vulnerability in http.cookiejar. Patch by Ben Caller.

bpo-39017: Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the tarfile module (CVE-2019-20907).

bpo-41183: Use 3072 RSA keys and SHA-256 signature for test certs and keys.

bpo-39503: AbstractBasicAuthHandler of urllib.request now parses all WWW-Authenticate HTTP headers and accepts multiple challenges per header: use the realm of the first Basic challenge.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140678

File Name: freebsd_pkg_2cb21232fb3211eaa929a4bf014bf5f7.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 9/21/2020

Updated: 2/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15523

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:python35, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18348, CVE-2019-20907, CVE-2020-14422, CVE-2020-15523, CVE-2020-8492

IAVA: 2020-A-0340-S

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