Fedora python CVE-2018-14647 Missing Initialization of Resource Vulnerability

Description

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 contructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.

Affected Applications

python

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