Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-python38 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Moderate

A double free issue has been discovered in python-psutil because of the mishandling of refcounts while converting system data into Python objects in functions like psutil_disk_partitions(), psutil_users(), psutil_net_if_addrs(), and others. In particular cases, a local attacker may be able to get code execution by manipulating system resources that python-psutil then tries to convert.

CWE-416 - Use After Free

A flaw was found in python. In Lib/tarfile.py an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

A vulnerability was found in the way the ipaddress python module computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface classes. This flaw allows an attacker to create many dictionary entries, due to the performance of a dictionary containing the IPv4Interface or IPv6Interface objects, possibly resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

A flaw was found in Python. The built-in modules httplib and http.client (included in Python 2 and Python 3, respectively) do not properly validate CRLF sequences in the HTTP request method, potentially allowing manipulation to the request by injecting additional HTTP headers. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

CWE-113 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting')