Debian DLA-1834-1 : python2.7 security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126222

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Python, an interactive high-level object-oriented language, including

CVE-2018-14647

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 constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.

CVE-2019-5010

NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate.

CVE-2019-9636

Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding (with an incorrect netloc) during NFKC normalization resulting in information disclosure (credentials, cookies, etc. that are cached against a given hostname).
A specially crafted URL could be incorrectly parsed to locate cookies or authentication data and send that information to a different host than when parsed correctly.

CVE-2019-9740

An issue was discovered in urllib2 where CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in the query string after a ? character) followed by an HTTP header or a Redis command.

CVE-2019-9947

An issue was discovered in urllib2 where CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in the path component of a URL that lacks a ? character) followed by an HTTP header or a Redis command. This is similar to the CVE-2019-9740 query string issue.

CVE-2019-9948

urllib supports the local_file: scheme, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that blacklist file:
URIs, as demonstrated by triggering a urllib.urlopen('local_file:///etc/passwd') call.

CVE-2019-10160

A security regression of CVE-2019-9636 was discovered which still allows an attacker to exploit CVE-2019-9636 by abusing the user and password parts of a URL. When an application parses user-supplied URLs to store cookies, authentication credentials, or other kind of information, it is possible for an attacker to provide specially crafted URLs to make the application locate host-related information (e.g. cookies, authentication data) and send them to a different host than where it should, unlike if the URLs had been correctly parsed.
The result of an attack may vary based on the application.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.9-2+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your python2.7 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126222

File Name: debian_DLA-1834.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9948

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:idle-python2.7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpython2.7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpython2.7-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpython2.7-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpython2.7-minimal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpython2.7-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpython2.7-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python2.7-minimal, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14647, CVE-2019-10160, CVE-2019-5010, CVE-2019-9636, CVE-2019-9740, CVE-2019-9947, CVE-2019-9948

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