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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: USN-3990-2 Medium Severity: urllib3 CRLF Injection

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3991-1 highlights a critical vulnerability in python-requests that necessitates urgent updates for Ubuntu 16.04.
urllib3 could be used to perform a CRLF injection if it received a specially crafted request.

Summary

urllib3 could be used to perform a CRLF injection if it received a specially

crafted request.

Software Description:

- python-urllib3: HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling for Python

Details:

USN-3990-1 fixed a vulnerability in urllib3. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that urllib3 incorrectly stripped certain characters from

requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform CRLF injection.

(CVE-2019-11236)

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
  python-urllib3                  1.7.1-1ubuntu4.1+esm1
  python3-urllib3                 1.7.1-1ubuntu4.1+esm1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3990-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3990-1

CVE-2019-11236

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July 29, 2019

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