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

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2016-5699: Moderate: python security update (RHSA-2016:1626)
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2016-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2016, 5699, Moderate, 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, Severity 4

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Aug 18, 2016

Added

Aug 22, 2016

Modified

Feb 19, 2026

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-pythonredhat-upgrade-python-debugredhat-upgrade-python-debuginforedhat-upgrade-python-develredhat-upgrade-python-libsredhat-upgrade-python-testredhat-upgrade-python-toolsredhat-upgrade-tkinter

References

BID-91226
DEBIAN-DLA-522-1
NVD-CVE-2016-5699
REDHAT-RHSA-2016:1626
REDHAT-RHSA-2016:1627
REDHAT-RHSA-2016:1628
REDHAT-RHSA-2016:1629
REDHAT-RHSA-2016:1630
UBUNTU-USN-3134-1

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