Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2018.3156.1
Category:	SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:	SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'python' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'python' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: This update for python fixes the following issue: - CVE-2018-14647: Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM (bsc#1109847) Affected Software/OS: 'python' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11-SP4. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-14647 BugTraq ID: 105396 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105396 Debian Security Information: DSA-4306 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306 Debian Security Information: DSA-4307 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBJCB2HWOJLP3L7CUQHJHNBHLSVOXJE5/ https://bugs.python.org/issue34623 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00022.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00023.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:1260 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:2030 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2030 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2019:3725 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041740 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:0086 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/
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