Updated python and python3 packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 04 Feb 2021Modification date: 04 Feb 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2021-3177
Description
A flaw was found in python. A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the ctypes module provided within Python. Applications that use ctypes without carefully validating the input passed to it may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to overflow a buffer on the stack and crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability (CVE-2021-3177).
References
SRPMS
7/core
- python-2.7.18-1.2.mga7
- python3-3.7.9-1.2.mga7