vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-21240: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 8, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Oct 2, 2024

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-httplib2
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