Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5699: Security patch for python26, python27, python34 (ALAS-2016-724)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
07/20/2016
07/25/2018
07/22/2016
04/16/2020
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in the HTTPConnection.putheader function in urllib2 and urllib in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.10 and 3.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in a URL.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade--python27
- amazon-linux-upgrade--python34
- amazon-linux-upgrade-python26
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