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SUSE: CVE-2021-21240: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2021-21240: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/08/2021
Created
05/29/2021
Added
05/26/2021
Modified
10/26/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-python-httplib2
  • suse-upgrade-python2-httplib2
  • suse-upgrade-python3-httplib2

References

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