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Fedora 28 FEDORA-2019-8560719e80 Critical: Python-Urllib3 Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 has rolled out an update focused on security vulnerabilities in python-urllib3, enhancing the processing of authorization headers for better safety.
- Fix an issue similar to CVE-2018-20060 where the authorization header was removed only when the case matched

Summary

Python HTTP module with connection pooling and file POST abilities.

- Fix an issue similar to CVE-2018-20060 where the authorization header was

removed only when the case matched. - Fix an issue where the system CA bundle

was loaded even when an alternate bundle was explicitly specified

(https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/17/3 Full changelog at:

https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/1.24.2/CHANGES.rst

* Wed Apr 17 2019 Jeremy Cline - 1.24.2-1

- Update to v1.24.2

* Tue Nov 13 2018 Jeremy Cline - 1.24.1-2

- Adjust unbundling of ssl_match_hostname

* Mon Oct 29 2018 Jeremy Cline - 1.24.1-1

- Update to v1.24.1

* Thu May 3 2018 Lukas Slebodnik - 1.22-9

- Do not lowercase hostnames with custom-protocol (rhbz 1567862)

- upstream: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1267

* Wed Apr 18 2018 Jeremy Cline - 1.22-8

- Drop the dependency on idna and cryptography (rhbz 1567862)

* Mon Apr 16 2018 Jeremy Cline - 1.22-7

- Drop the dependency on PyOpenSSL, it's not needed (rhbz 1567862)

[ 1 ] Bug #1701014 - python-urllib3-1.24.2 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701014

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-8560719e80' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.24.2
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Python HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling and file post

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