USN-2382-1: Requests vulnerabilities
14 October 2014
Requests could be made to expose authentication credentials over the network.
Releases
Packages
- requests - elegant and simple HTTP library for Python
Details
Jakub Wilk discovered that Requests incorrectly reused authentication
credentials after being redirected. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to obtain authentication credentials intended for another site.
(CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.