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AlmaLinux 8 : python27:2.7 (ALSA-2023:2860)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176112

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2860 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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/8/ALSA-2023-2860.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176112

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2023-2860.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 5/19/2023

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45061

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-attrs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-lxml, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-nose, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-psycopg2-debug, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-six, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python-psycopg2-doc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-cython, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pip, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-idna, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-bson, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-dns, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-babel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-scipy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pytest, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-chardet, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pytz, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-funcsigs, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-backports, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-numpy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-py, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-mock, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-requests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-docs-info, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pygments, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-pyyaml, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-docutils, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-rpm-macros, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-ipaddress, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-debug, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-wheel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-coverage, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python2-docs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-45061

CWE: 400