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RedHat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2272-01 Moderate Python-Urllib3 Patch

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
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A new patch has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 that fixes vulnerabilities found in python-urllib3. Discover more details.
An update for python-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The python-urllib3 package provides the Python HTTP module with connection pooling and file POST abilities.
Security Fix(es):
* python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure (CVE-2018-20060)
* python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the ' ' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRLF injection credential exposure python-urllib3

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20060 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11236 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.src.rpm
noarch: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.src.rpm
noarch: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.src.rpm
noarch: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.src.rpm
noarch: python-urllib3-1.10.2-7.el7.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2272-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2272
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for python-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRLF injection credential exposure python-urllib3

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1649153 - CVE-2018-20060 python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure

1700824 - CVE-2019-11236 python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the '

' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service

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