ALAS-2018-1003


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1003
Advisory Release Date: 2018-04-26 17:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-05-03 22:35 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

DOS via regular expression catastrophic backtracking in apop() method in pop3lib
A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-1060)

DOS via regular expression backtracking in difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method in difflib
A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-1061)


Affected Packages:

python34, python35, python36, python27


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python34 to update your system.
Run yum update python35 to update your system.
Run yum update python36 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    python34-test-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.i686
    python34-devel-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.i686
    python34-libs-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.i686
    python34-debuginfo-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.i686
    python34-tools-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.i686
    python34-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.i686
    python35-tools-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.i686
    python35-test-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.i686
    python35-devel-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.i686
    python35-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.i686
    python35-debuginfo-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.i686
    python35-libs-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.i686
    python36-devel-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python36-debug-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python36-test-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python36-debuginfo-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python36-libs-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python36-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python36-tools-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.i686
    python27-libs-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.i686
    python27-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.i686
    python27-debuginfo-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.i686
    python27-test-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.i686
    python27-devel-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.i686
    python27-tools-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.i686

src:
    python34-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.src
    python35-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.src
    python36-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.src
    python27-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    python34-tools-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-libs-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-debuginfo-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-test-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-devel-3.4.8-1.39.amzn1.x86_64
    python35-devel-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    python35-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    python35-debuginfo-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    python35-test-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    python35-libs-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    python35-tools-3.5.5-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-tools-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-test-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-devel-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-debug-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-debuginfo-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python36-libs-3.6.5-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
    python27-debuginfo-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.x86_64
    python27-libs-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.x86_64
    python27-test-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.x86_64
    python27-tools-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.x86_64
    python27-devel-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.x86_64
    python27-2.7.14-1.123.amzn1.x86_64