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Mageia: 2020-0428 Security Advisory - Python-Twisted HTTP Request Risk

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2020-0429 addresses vulnerabilities in Flask for Mageia 7. The update mitigates risks related to CSRF exploits.
Jake Miller and ZeddYu Lu discovered that Twisted incorrectly handled certain content-length headers

Summary

Jake Miller and ZeddYu Lu discovered that Twisted incorrectly handled certain content-length headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request splitting attacks (CVE-2020-10108, CVE-2020-10109).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26355

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4308-1

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1561

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YW3NIL7VXSGJND2Q4BSXM3CFTAFU6T7D/

- https://bishopfox.com/blog/twisted-version-19-10-0-advisory

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00018.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10108

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10109

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/python-twisted-19.2.1-1.2.mga7

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Publication date: 21 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0428.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-10108, CVE-2020-10109

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