USN-6988-1: Twisted vulnerabilities

4 September 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Twisted.

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Releases

Packages

  • twisted - Event-based framework for internet applications

Details

Ben Kallus discovered that Twisted incorrectly handled response order when
processing multiple HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to delay and manipulate responses.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-41671)

It was discovered that Twisted did not properly sanitize certain input.
An attacker could use this vulnerability to possibly execute an HTML
injection leading to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
(CVE-2024-41810)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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