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CVE-2019-5010
high
Description
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.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-26
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00034.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3520
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html