PSF-2019-8

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    PSF-2019-8

    Published: 31 Oct 2019Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2019-5010

    Summary: TALOS-2018-0758 SSL CRL distribution points Denial of Service

    Details: An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python 2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: https://bugs.python.org/issue35746, https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/01/vulnerability-spotlight-pythonorg.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -06b15424b0dcacb1c551b2a36e739fffa8d0c595

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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