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Ubuntu 21.04: USN-4956-1 Critical: Eventlet Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-4956-1 addresses a critical eventlet denial of service vulnerability impacting various Ubuntu versions. Please ensure you update immediately.
Eventlet could be made denial of service if it received a specially crafted request.

Summary

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 21.04: python3-eventlet 0.30.0-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 20.10: python3-eventlet 0.26.1-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: python3-eventlet 0.25.1-2ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4956-1

CVE-2021-21419

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May 17, 2021

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security advisory denial of service security update Ubuntu update instructions ubuntu python-eventlet eventlet

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-eventlet/0.30.0-0ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-eventlet/0.26.1-0ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-eventlet/0.25.1-2ubuntu1.1

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