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Mageia 9: MGASA-2025-0053 critical: python-waitress denial of service

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Improvements to python-waitress libraries combat security vulnerabilities in Mageia. Major corrections implemented on February 12, 2025.
Waitress has a request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with an invalid first request

Summary

Waitress has a request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with an invalid first request. (CVE-2024-49768) Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion. (CVE-2024-49769)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33819

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2024-November/019754.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49768

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49769

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service resource exhaustion high CPU usage request processing Mageia python-waitress

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/python-waitress-2.1.2-1.1.mga9

Severity
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Publication date: 12 Feb 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0053.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-49768, CVE-2024-49769

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service resource exhaustion high CPU usage request processing Mageia python-waitress

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