USN-3790-2: Requests vulnerability
22 October 2018
Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted HTTP header.
Releases
Packages
- requests - elegant and simple HTTP library for Python
Details
USN-3790-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Requests. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.10
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Requests incorrectly handled certain HTTP headers.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 18.10
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3790-1: requests, python-requests-whl, python3-requests, python-requests