Vigil@nce - Python: denial of service via Lib/ipaddress.py Hash Collision
August 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, Python, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server, denial of service on
service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 19/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via Lib/ipaddress.py Hash
Collision of Python, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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