Debian: DSA-3979-1: pyjwt security update

Date 19 Sep 2017

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

It was discovered that PyJWT, a Python implementation of JSON Web Token performed insufficient validation of some public key types, which could allow a remote attacker to craft JWTs from scratch.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3979-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
September 19, 2017                    https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : pyjwt
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-11424

It was discovered that PyJWT, a Python implementation of JSON Web Token
performed insufficient validation of some public key types, which could
allow a remote attacker to craft JWTs from scratch.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.2.1-1+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.2-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pyjwt packages.

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