Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-21240: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Description
httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. In httplib2 before version 0.19.0, a malicious server which responds with long series of "\xa0" characters in the "www-authenticate" header may cause Denial of Service (CPU burn while parsing header) of the httplib2 client accessing said server. This is fixed in version 0.19.0 which contains a new implementation of auth headers parsing using the pyparsing library.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-httplib2
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