UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40839
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-40839, https://github.com/aresch/rencode/commit/572ff74586d9b1daab904c6f7f7009ce0143bb75, https://github.com/aresch/rencode/pull/29, https://pypi.org/project/rencode/#history, https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/16, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40839
Affected packages
Package
Name: python-rencode
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
1.0.3-1build1
1.0.3-1build2
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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