Amazon Linux AMI : python35 (ALAS-2018-1101)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 118805
Synopsis
The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
Description
Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by contructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.(CVE-2018-14647)
Solution
Run 'yum update python35' to update your system.