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FreeBSD: VID-28A37DF6-BA1A-4EED-BB64-623FC8E8DFD0 (CVE-2022-42969): py39-py -- Regular expression Denial of Service vulnerability

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FreeBSD: VID-28A37DF6-BA1A-4EED-BB64-623FC8E8DFD0 (CVE-2022-42969): py39-py -- Regular expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/16/2022
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/14/2023
Modified
04/14/2023

Description

The py library through 1.11.0 for Python allows remote attackers to conduct a ReDoS (Regular expression Denial of Service) attack via a Subversion repository with crafted info data, because the InfoSvnCommand argument is mishandled.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py39-py

References

  • CVE-2022-42969

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