RedHat: RHSA-2020-0720:01 Low: python-waitress security update
Summary
Waitress is a pure Python WSGI server which supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
Security Fix(es):
* HTTP request smuggling through LF vs CRLF handling (CVE-2019-16785)
* HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding (CVE-2019-16786)
* HTTP Request Smuggling through Invalid whitespace characters in headers(CVE-2019-16789)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16785 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16786 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16789 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
Package List
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15.0:
Source:
python-waitress-1.4.2-1.el8ost.src.rpm
noarch:
python3-waitress-1.4.2-1.el8ost.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/
Topic
An update for python-waitress is now available for Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 15 (Stein).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15.0 - noarch
Bugs Fixed
1789807 - CVE-2019-16789 waitress: HTTP Request Smuggling through Invalid whitespace characters in headers1791415 - CVE-2019-16786 waitress: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding
1791420 - CVE-2019-16785 waitress: HTTP request smuggling through LF vs CRLF handling
