Mageia 2021-0122: python-httplib2 security update
Summary
A malicious server which responds with long series of \xa0 characters in the
www-authenticate header may cause Denial of Service (CPU burn while parsing
header) of the httplib2 client accessing said server (CVE-2021-21240).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28385
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21240
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0122 - Updated python-httplib2 packages fix a security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/python-httplib2-0.19.0-1.mga8
- 7/core/python-httplib2-0.19.0-1.mga7