USN-5821-3 fixed a vulnerability in pip. The update introduced a minor regression in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Sebastian Chnelik discovered that wheel incorrectly handled certain file names when validated against a regex expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
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