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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-20907: python security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-20907: python security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/13/2020
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/28/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-python
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-python-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-python-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-tkinter

References

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