National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3492

Overview

The asyncore module in Python before 3.2 does not properly handle unsuccessful calls to the accept function, and does not have accompanying documentation describing how daemon applications should handle unsuccessful calls to the accept function, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks that terminate these applications via network connections.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.python.org/issue6706

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://bugs.python.org/issue6706

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100924 Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100922 Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/22/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100910 Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/11/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100909 CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/09/6

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:216

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:216

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:215

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:215

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12111

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12111

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12111

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12111