CVE-2019-5010
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
192 explicit affected versions
253 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/01/vulnerability-spotlight-pythonorg.html
- https://bugs.python.org/issue35746
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3520
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00034.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-26
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0758