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Incorrect Calculation Affecting python2.7 package, versions <2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.12

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.33% (71st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-PYTHON27-589943
  • published 22 Jul 2020
  • disclosed 12 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 12 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17514 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-682 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 python2.7 to version 2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.12 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2.7 package and not the python2.7 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated "finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell," one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.

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