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openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2: 2021:0796-1 Moderate: python-httplib2 DoS

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Resolves medium risk vulnerabilities in python-httplib2 for openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2. Urgent patches have been released.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for python-httplib2 contains the following fixes:

Security fixes included in this update:

- CVE-2021-21240: Fixed a regular expression denial of service via

malicious header (bsc#1182053).

- CVE-2020-11078: Fixed an issue where an attacker could change request

headers and body (bsc#1171998).

Non security fixes included in this update:

- Update in SLE to 0.19.0 (bsc#1182053, CVE-2021-21240)

- update to 0.19.0:

* auth: parse headers using pyparsing instead of regexp

* auth: WSSE token needs to be string not bytes

- update to 0.18.1: (bsc#1171998, CVE-2020-11078)

* explicit build-backend workaround for pip build isolation bug

* IMPORTANT security vulnerability CWE-93 CRLF injection Force %xx quote

of space, CR, LF characters in uri.

* Ship test suite in source dist

- Update to 0.17.1

* python3: no_proxy was not checked with https

* feature: Http().redirect_codes set, works after...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-796=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (noarch):

python2-httplib2-0.19.0-bp152.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11078.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21240.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171998

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182053

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0796-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 .

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