Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-229 – A denial of service flaw was found in the way SSL module implementation of Python 3 performed matching of the certificate’s name in the case it contained many ‘*’ wildcard characters. A remote attacker, able to obtain valid certificate with its name containing a lot of ‘*’ wildcard characters could use this flaw to cause denial of service (excessive CPU consumption) by issuing request to validate such a certificate for / to an application using the Python’s ssl.match_hostname() functionality…. Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-229 – A denial of service flaw was found in the way SSL module implementation of Python 3 performed matching of the certificate’s name in the case it contained many ‘*’ wildcard characters. A remote attacker, able to obtain valid certificate with its name containing a lot of ‘*’ wildcard characters could use this flaw to cause denial of service (excessive CPU consumption) by issuing request to validate such a certificate for / to an application using the Python’s ssl.match_hostname() functionality.
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