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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5699: Moderate: python security update (RHSA-2016:1626)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5699: Moderate: python security update (RHSA-2016:1626)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/18/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/22/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-python
  • redhat-upgrade-python-debug
  • redhat-upgrade-python-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-python-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-python-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-python-test
  • redhat-upgrade-python-tools
  • redhat-upgrade-tkinter

References

  • RHSA-2016:1626
  • RHSA-2016:1627
  • RHSA-2016:1628
  • RHSA-2016:1629
  • RHSA-2016:1630
  • 91226
  • CVE-2016-5699
  • USN-3134-1
  • DLA-522-1
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