Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-0850-01 - An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. CRLF injection and credential exposure issues were addressed.

Proof of concept exploit for a Microsoft VSCode python extension code execution vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-0870-01 - Flask is a lightweight but extensible web development framework for Python based on the Werkzeug WSGI toolkit, and the Jinja 2 template engine. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-0898-01 - The Python Imaging Library adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities. An issue where improperly restricted operations on a memory buffer in libImaging/PcxDecode.c were addressed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1131-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. Issues addressed include an incorrect parsing vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1132-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. This package provides the "python3" executable: the reference interpreter for the Python language, version 3. The majority of its standard library is provided in the python3-libs package, which should be installed automatically along with python3. The remaining parts of the Python standard library are broken out into the python3-tkinter and python3-test packages. Issues addressed include an incorrect parsing vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1091-01 - Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. Twisted Web is a complete web server, aimed at hosting web applications using Twisted and Python, but fully able to serve static pages too. Issues addressed include an improper neutralization vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1324-01 - Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY principle. Issues addressed include denial of service, memory exhaustion, and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.

Neowise CarbonFTP version 1.4 suffers from an insecure proprietary password encryption implementation. Second version of this exploit that is updated to work with Python 3.

Ubuntu Security Notice 4333-1 - It was discovered that Python incorrectly stripped certain characters from requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform CRLF injection. It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1916-01 - pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Many packages can be found in the Python Package Index. pip is a recursive acronym that can stand for either "Pip Installs Packages" or "Pip Installs Python". Issues addressed include crlf injection and cross-host redirect vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1764-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. Issues addressed include an incorrect parsing vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1605-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Issues addressed include crlf injection, cross-host redirect, and incorrect parsing vulnerabilities.

The Great War: Linux -vs- Minix

Dictionary word list from Minix /usr/dict/words. (39214 wods)

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel. The minix filesystem code allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed minix file stream. An integer underflow in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SKB length value in a runt IEEE 802.11 frame when the IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA flag is set.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel. The minix filesystem code allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed minix file stream. An integer underflow in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SKB length value in a runt IEEE 802.11 frame when the IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA flag is set.

Minix version 3.1.2a suffers from a tty panic local denial of service vulnerability.

minix version 3.1.2a suffers from a remote tty panic vulnerability.

MINIX version 3.3.0 suffers from multiple local denial of service vulnerabilities.

MINIX versions 3.3.0 and below remote TCP/IP stack denial of service exploit that leverages a malformed TCP option.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1577-01 - The exiv2 packages provide a command line utility which can display and manipulate image metadata such as EXIF, LPTC, and JPEG comments. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, denial of service, integer overflow, null pointer, and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-1686-01 - The libmspack packages contain a library providing compression and extraction of the Cabinet file format used by Microsoft. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.