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 c…

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CVE-2018-14647 · Microsoft / collected KEV context

cve-program · CVE-2018-14647

• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4306
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-2/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041740
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105396
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4307
• https://bugs.python.org/issue34623
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3817-1/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14647
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RBJCB2HWOJLP3L7CUQHJHNBHLSVOXJE5/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1260
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00022.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00023.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2030
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

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