Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120059
Category:	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-521)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'python-tornado' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-521 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'python-tornado' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-521 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: A denial of service flaw was found in the way Python's SSL module implementation performed matching of certain certificate names. A remote attacker able to obtain a valid certificate that contained multiple wildcard characters could use this flaw to issue a request to validate such a certificate, resulting in excessive consumption of CPU. Affected Software/OS: 'python-tornado' package(s) on Amazon Linux. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-2099 55107 http://secunia.com/advisories/55107 55116 http://secunia.com/advisories/55116 RHSA-2014:1690 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1690.html RHSA-2016:1166 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1166 USN-1983-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1983-1 USN-1984-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1984-1 USN-1985-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1985-1 [oss-security] 20130515 Re: CVE Request (minor) -- Python 3.2: DoS when matching certificate with many '*' wildcard characters {was: CVE Request (minor) -- python-backports-ssl_match_hostname: Denial of service when matching certificate with many '*' wildcard characters } http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/16/6 http://bugs.python.org/issue17980 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963260
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG

This is only one of 145615 vulnerability tests in our test suite. Find out more about running a complete security audit. To run a free test of this vulnerability against your system, register below.