USN-3790-1: Requests vulnerability
15 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
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 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
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python-requests
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2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
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python-requests-whl
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2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
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python3-requests
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2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3790-2: python-requests, requests, python3-requests