CVE-2020-29651

Advisory

Py 1.10.0 includes a fix for CVE-2020-29651: A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality. See CVE-2020-29651.


MISC:https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/256: https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/256
MISC:https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/pull/257: https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/pull/257
MISC:https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/pull/257/commits/4a9017dc6199d2a564b6e4b0aa39d6d8870e4144: https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/pull/257/commits/4a9017dc6199d2a564b6e4b0aa39d6d8870e4144

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29651
• https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/pull/257/commits/4a9017dc6199d2a564b6e4b0aa39d6d8870e4144
• https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/256
• https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/pull/257
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AYWNYEV3FGDHPIHX4DDUDMFZ6NLCQRC4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CHDTINIBJZ67T3W74QTBIY5LPKAXEOGR/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html