Oracle Linux 8 : python39:3.9 / and / python39-devel:3.9 (ELSA-2021-4160)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155967

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-4160 advisory.

- Security fix for CVE-2021-28957 Resolves: rhbz#1941534
- Fixes CVE-2020-27783 and another vulnerability in the HTML Cleaner
- Fix for CVE-2021-33503 Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser Resolves: rhbz#1968074
- Fix CVE-2021-29921: Improper input validation of octal strings in the ipaddress module Resolves: rhbz#1957458
- Security fix for CVE-2021-3426: information disclosure via pydoc Resolves: rhbz#1935913

python3x-pip
- Fix for CVE-2021-33503 Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser Resolves: rhbz#1968074
- Fix for CVE-2021-3572 - pip incorrectly handled unicode separators in git references Resolves: rhbz#1962856

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155967

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-4160.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 12/10/2021

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29921

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.9

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28957

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-six, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pybind11, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cython, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pip, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-py, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pytest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-attrs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-numpy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-idna, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psutil, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-packaging, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-requests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-ply, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cffi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-toml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-chardet, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-scipy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-test, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-pybind11-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-idle, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python39-lxml

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28957, CVE-2021-29921, CVE-2021-33503, CVE-2021-3426, CVE-2021-3572, CVE-2021-3733, CVE-2021-3737

IAVA: 2021-A-0263-S, 2021-A-0497-S

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