RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-python36-python (RHSA-2019:3725)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194161

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3725 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: rh-python36-python (3.6.9).
(BZ#1709344)

Security Fix(es):

* python: DOS via regular expression backtracking in difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method in difflib (CVE-2018-1061)

* python: Missing salt initialization in _elementtree.c module (CVE-2018-14647)

* python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results (CVE-2018-20852)

* python: NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate (CVE-2019-5010)

* python: CRLF injection via the query part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9740)

* python: CRLF injection via the path part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9947)

* python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses (CVE-2019-16056)

* python: DOS via regular expression catastrophic backtracking in apop() method in pop3lib (CVE-2018-1060)

* python: Integer overflow in Modules/_pickle.c allows for memory exhaustion if serializing gigabytes of data (CVE-2018-20406)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* urlsplit doesn't accept a NFKD hostname with a port number (BZ#1709340)

* rh-python36 cannot unpickle datetime.date objects (BZ#1749103)

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 affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ed1f5db

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549191

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549192

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1631822

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1664509

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666519

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1688169

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695572

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709344

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740347

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749103

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749839

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194161

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3725.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9948

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-python36-python-devel

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: 11/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1060, CVE-2018-1061, CVE-2018-14647, CVE-2018-20406, CVE-2018-20852, CVE-2019-16056, CVE-2019-5010, CVE-2019-9740, CVE-2019-9947, CVE-2019-9948

CWE: 113, 20, 335, 400, 476, 749

RHSA: 2019:3725