vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-20907: Security patch for python26 ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2020
Added
Sep 1, 2020
Modified
Apr 30, 2025

Description

In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade--python35amazon-linux-upgrade--python36amazon-linux-upgrade-python26amazon-linux-upgrade-python27amazon-linux-upgrade-python34amazon-linux-upgrade-python36
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