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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting python2 package, versions <2.7.17-r0

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.51% (77th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE310-PYTHON2-587772
  • published 4 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 4 Sep 2019
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Introduced: 4 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15903 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-776 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 python2 to version 2.7.17-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2 package and not the python2 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

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