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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-3790-1 High: Requests Info Exposure

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2018
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Update USN-3791-1 addresses a critical vulnerability in handling requests that could lead to unintended data exposure through specially designed HTTP headers.
Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted HTTP header.

Summary

Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it

received a specially crafted HTTP header.

Software Description:

- requests: elegant and simple HTTP library for Python

Details:

It was discovered that Requests incorrectly handled certain HTTP

headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive

information.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information exposure ubuntu attack vector http header requests severity high

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  python-requests                 2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1
  python3-requests                2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  python-requests                 2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1
  python3-requests                2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  python-requests                 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
  python-requests-whl             2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
  python3-requests                2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3790-1

  CVE-2018-18074

October 15, 2018

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information exposure ubuntu attack vector http header requests severity high

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/requests/2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/requests/2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/requests/2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4

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