Advisories » MGASA-2022-0167

Updated python-rencode packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2022
Modification date: 12 May 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-40839

Description

The rencode package through 1.0.6 for Python allows an infinite loop in
typecode decoding (such as via ;\x2f\x7f), enabling a remote attack that
consumes CPU and memory. (CVE-2021-40839)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30051
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MCLETLGVM5DBX6QNHQFW6TWGO5T3DENY/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40839

SRPMS

8/core

• python-rencode-1.0.6-2.1.mga8