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CVE-2018-14647

CVE-2018-14647: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.

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  • Advisory severityMedium5.3

    Medium [CVE-2018-14647] Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization

    CVE-2018-14647Source published Source updated

    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. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.3 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L). Weakness: CWE-909.

    Affected products in this advisory
    • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions

    9 more entries in the full advisory.

    Source-reported affected versions
    • 3.7.0
    • 3.6.0
    • 3.6.6
    • 3.5.0

    5 more entries in the full advisory.

    Source-reported fixed versions
    • ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28
    • ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28
    • ansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-memcached-rhel7:1.4.15-28
    • python-0:2.7.5-86.el7

    16 more entries in the full advisory.

    Mitigation guidance
    No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
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