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Fedora 30 : python2 / python2-docs (2019-0c91ce7b3c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124470

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 30 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2019-0c91ce7b3c advisory.

 Update legacy Python to 2.7.16. Most significant improvement is that is builds against OpenSSL 1.1.1. See [upstream release announcement](https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2716/) and [changelog](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.16.rst) (+ [rc1 changelog](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.16rc1.rst)).

 Fixes the following CVEs:

 * [CVE-2019-5010](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-5010) Fix a NULL pointer deref in ssl module. The cert parser did not handle CRL distribution points with empty DP or URI correctly. A malicious or buggy certificate can result into segfault. Vulnerability (TALOS-2018-0758) reported by Colin Read and Nicolas Edet of Cisco.
 * [CVE-2013-1752](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1752): Change use of readline() in `imaplib.IMAP4_SSL` to limit line length.

 ([CVE-2018-14647](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-14647) is listed in upstream changelog, but it was already backported in Fedora.)

 Note that Python 2 is deprecated in Fedora 30 and users are advised to switch to Python 3. Upstream support of Python 2 ends on 2020-01-01.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected python2 and / or python2-docs packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0c91ce7b3c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124470

File Name: fedora_2019-0c91ce7b3c.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2019

Updated: 8/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5010

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python2-docs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14647, CVE-2019-5010