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CVE-2018-1061

Updated on 19 Jun 2018

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in the difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Details

Affected product:
Alpine Linux 3.22 , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 , Debian 11 , Debian 12 , Debian 13 , EL 10 , EL 6 , EL 7 , EL 8 , EL 9 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 20.04 , Ubuntu 22.04 , Ubuntu 24.04
Affected packages:
python @ 2.7 (+43 more)
python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in the difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Fixes