Source: python-httplib2 Version: 0.18.1-3 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for python-httplib2. CVE-2021-21240[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21240 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21240 [1] https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-93xj-8mrv-444m Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
