Mageia: 2021-0122 Moderate: Python-Httplib2 Denial of Service Alert
mageia
March 11, 2021
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 cli...
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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21240
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/python-httplib2-0.19.0-1.mga8
- 7/core/python-httplib2-0.19.0-1.mga7
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Publication date: 12 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0122.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-21240
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