Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1406
Advisory Release Date: 2020-07-27 23:54 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-07-29 21:38 Pacific
Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking. (CVE-2020-8492)
Affected Packages:
python26
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python26 to update your system.
i686:
python26-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.i686
python26-debuginfo-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.i686
python26-devel-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.i686
python26-libs-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.i686
python26-test-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.i686
python26-tools-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.i686
src:
python26-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python26-debuginfo-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.x86_64
python26-devel-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.x86_64
python26-test-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.x86_64
python26-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.x86_64
python26-tools-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.x86_64
python26-libs-2.6.9-2.90.amzn1.x86_64