CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-14853

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Published: Nov 26, 2019 | Modified: Dec 17, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.7 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa before version 0.13.3. During signature decoding, malformed DER signatures could raise unexpected exceptions (or no exceptions at all), which could lead to a denial of service.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Python-ecdsa Python-ecdsa_project * 0.13.3 (excluding)
Red Hat Satellite 6.10 for RHEL 7 RedHat python-ecdsa-0:0.13.3-2.el7pc *
Red Hat Satellite 6.10 for RHEL 7 RedHat python-ecdsa-0:0.13.3-2.el7pc *
Python-ecdsa Ubuntu bionic *
Python-ecdsa Ubuntu disco *
Python-ecdsa Ubuntu eoan *
Python-ecdsa Ubuntu trusty *
Python-ecdsa Ubuntu upstream *
Python-ecdsa Ubuntu xenial *

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