<p>Upgrade <code>Alpine:3.8</code> <code>python2</code> to version 2.7.15-r2 or higher.</p>

Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting python2 package, versions <2.7.15-r2

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.44% (75^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE38-PYTHON2-458368
published 25 Sep 2018
disclosed 25 Sep 2018

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Introduced: 25 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-14647 Open this link in a new tab CWE-909 Open this link in a new tab CWE-665 Open this link in a new tab CWE-335 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.8 python2 to version 2.7.15-r2 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:3.8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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. The vulnerability exists in Python versions 3.7.0, 3.6.0 through 3.6.6, 3.5.0 through 3.5.6, 3.4.0 through 3.4.9, 2.7.0 through 2.7.15.