CVE-2019-5010

Advisory

Python versions 2.7.16, 3.4.10, 3.5.7, 3.6.9 and 3.7.3 include a fix for CVE-2019-5010: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.
https://bugs.python.org/issue35746

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Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5010
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0758
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3520
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-26
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00034.html