Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU69392
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45061
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of an unnecessary quadratic algorithm in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted name to he decoder, trigger resource excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationUpdate the affected package python to the latest version.
Vulnerable software versionsSUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12-SP2-BCL
python-xml-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-xml: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-tk-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-tk: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-idle: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-gdbm-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-gdbm: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-demo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-debugsource: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-debuginfo-32bit: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-curses-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-curses: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-base-debugsource: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-base-debuginfo-32bit: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-base-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-base-32bit: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-base: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-32bit: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
libpython2_7-1_0-debuginfo-32bit: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
libpython2_7-1_0-debuginfo: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
libpython2_7-1_0-32bit: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
libpython2_7-1_0: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-doc-pdf: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
python-doc: before 2.7.18-28.93.1
External linkshttp://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2023/suse-su-20230213-1/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.