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AlmaLinux 9 : python3.9 (ALSA-2022:7323)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166893

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:7323 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in python. In algorithms with quadratic time complexity using non-binary bases, when using int(text), a system could take 50ms to parse an int string with 100,000 digits and 5s for 1,000,000 digits (float, decimal, int.from_bytes(), and int() for binary bases 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 are not affected). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-10735)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-7323.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166893

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2022-7323.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 11/3/2022

Updated: 11/28/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10735

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python-unversioned-command, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-debug, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-test, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-tkinter, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10735

CWE: 400, 704