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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-7592: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-7592: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/19/2024
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the 'http.cookies' standard library module. When parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in the cookie value, the parser would use an algorithm with quadratic complexity, resulting in excess CPU resources being used while parsing the value.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-python3

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