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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Addressing CRLF Injection in python-urllib3

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has released a significant security patch for the OpenJDK, addressing vulnerabilities related to memory corruption and authentication flaws.
An update for python-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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: CRLF injection due to not encoding the ' ' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)
* python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown (CVE-2019-11324)
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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat internal service CRLF injection python-urllib3

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11236 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11324 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: python-urllib3-1.24.2-2.el8.src.rpm
noarch: python3-urllib3-1.24.2-2.el8.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-2019:3590-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3590
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for python-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat internal service CRLF injection python-urllib3

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service

1702473 - CVE-2019-11324 python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown

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