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SUSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1637-1 Moderate: Python-httplib2 DDoS Risk

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2021
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SUSE Security Patch: Update for python-requests tackling moderate risks, including denial-of-service and header-related vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Denial of Service SUSE Linux header injection python-httplib2 cloud module

References

#1171998 #1182053

Cross- CVE-2020-11078 CVE-2021-21240

CVSS scores:

CVE-2020-11078 (NVD) : 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE-2020-11078 (SUSE): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE-2021-21240 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2021-21240 (SUSE): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15

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: SUSE-SU-2021:1637-1
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Denial of Service SUSE Linux header injection python-httplib2 cloud module

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