CVE-2018-1060

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CVE-2018-1060

Summary:

Details: python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/46PVWY5LFP4BRPG3BVQ5QEEFYBVEXHCK/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AEZ5IQT7OF7Q2NCGIVABOWYGKO7YU3NJ/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSKPGPZQNTAULHW4UH63KGOOUIDE4RRB/, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042001, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3041, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725, https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-6-release-candidate-1, https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-6-5-release-candidate-1, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00030.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00031.html, https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03951en_us, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html, https://bugs.python.org/issue32981, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1060