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openSUSE Security Update : python-httplib2 (openSUSE-2021-772)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149881

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The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for python-httplib2 contains the following fixes :

Security fixes included in this update :

 - CVE-2021-21240: Fixed a regular expression denial of service via malicious header (bsc#1182053).

 - CVE-2020-11078: Fixed an issue where an attacker could change request headers and body (bsc#1171998).

Non security fixes included in this update :

 - Update in SLE to 0.19.0 (bsc#1182053, CVE-2021-21240)

 - update to 0.19.0 :

 - auth: parse headers using pyparsing instead of regexp

 - auth: WSSE token needs to be string not bytes

 - update to 0.18.1: (bsc#1171998, CVE-2020-11078)

 - explicit build-backend workaround for pip build isolation bug

 - IMPORTANT security vulnerability CWE-93 CRLF injection Force %xx quote of space, CR, LF characters in uri.

 - Ship test suite in source dist

 - Update to 0.17.1

 - python3: no_proxy was not checked with https

 - feature: Http().redirect_codes set, works after follow(_all)_redirects check This allows one line workaround for old gcloud library that uses 308 response without redirect semantics.

 - IMPORTANT cache invalidation change, fix 307 keep method, add 308 Redirects

 - proxy: username/password as str compatible with pysocks

 - python2: regression in connect() error handling

 - add support for password protected certificate files

 - feature: Http.close() to clean persistent connections and sensitive data

 - Update to 0.14.0 :

 - Python3: PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5 with str user/pass raised TypeError

 - version update to 0.13.1 0.13.1

 - Python3: Use no_proxy https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/140 0.13.0

 - Allow setting TLS max/min versions https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/138 0.12.3

 - No changes to library. Distribute py3 wheels. 0.12.1

 - Catch socket timeouts and clear dead connection https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/18 https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/111

 - Officially support Python 3.7 (package metadata) https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/123 0.12.0

 - Drop support for Python 3.3

 - ca_certs from environment HTTPLIB2_CA_CERTS or certifi https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/117

 - PROXY_TYPE_HTTP with non-empty user/pass raised TypeError: bytes required https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/115

 - Revert http:443->https workaround https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/112

 - eliminate connection pool read race https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/110

 - cache: stronger safename https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/101 0.11.3

 - No changes, just reupload of 0.11.2 after fixing automatic release conditions in Travis. 0.11.2

 - proxy: py3 NameError basestring https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/100 0.11.1

 - Fix HTTP(S)ConnectionWithTimeout AttributeError proxy_info https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/97 0.11.0

 - Add DigiCert Global Root G2 serial 033af1e6a711a9a0bb2864b11d09fae5 https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/91

 - python3 proxy support https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/90

 - If no_proxy environment value ends with comma then proxy is not used https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/11

 - fix UnicodeDecodeError using socks5 proxy https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/64

 - Respect NO_PROXY env var in proxy_info_from_url https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/58

 - NO_PROXY=bar was matching foobar (suffix without dot delimiter) New behavior matches curl/wget :

 - no_proxy=foo.bar will only skip proxy for exact hostname match

 - no_proxy=.wild.card will skip proxy for any.subdomains.wild.card https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/94

 - Bugfix for Content-Encoding: deflate https://stackoverflow.com/a/22311297

 - deleted patches

 - Removing certifi patch: httplib2 started to use certifi and this is already bent to use system certificate bundle by another patch

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected python-httplib2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171998

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182053

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/11

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/112

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/123

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/18

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/94

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/100

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/101

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/110

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/111

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/115

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/117

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/138

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/140

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/58

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/64

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/90

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/91

https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/97

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22311297

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149881

File Name: openSUSE-2021-772.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2021

Updated: 12/29/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11078

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-httplib2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-httplib2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11078, CVE-2021-21240