Vulnerability CVE-2018-1060


Published: 2018-06-18

Description:
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 pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Ansible tower 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
Python -> Python 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042001
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3041
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260
https://bugs.python.org/issue32981
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1060
https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-6-release-candidate-1
https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-6-5-release-candidate-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00031.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/46PVWY5LFP4BRPG3BVQ5QEEFYBVEXHCK/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEZ5IQT7OF7Q2NCGIVABOWYGKO7YU3NJ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSKPGPZQNTAULHW4UH63KGOOUIDE4RRB/
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03951en_us
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307

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