RHEL 8 : python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RHSA-2023:2763)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175864

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for python38:3.8 / python38-devel:3.8.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2763 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python38 (3.8.16).

Security Fix(es):

* python: int() type in PyLong_FromString() does not limit amount of digits converting text to int leading to DoS (CVE-2020-10735)

* python: open redirection vulnerability in lib/http/server.py may lead to information disclosure (CVE-2021-28861)

* python: CPU denial of service via inefficient IDNA decoder (CVE-2022-45061)

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 8.8 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 python38:3.8 / python38-devel:3.8 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:2763.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175864

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2763.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/16/2023

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-idle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-wheel-wheel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-idna

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: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10735, CVE-2021-28861, CVE-2022-45061

CWE: 400, 601

IAVA: 2022-A-0467-S, 2023-A-0061-S

RHSA: 2023:2763

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