Security update for python-httplib2

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1637-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2020-11078 ( SUSE ): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2020-11078 ( NVD ): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2021-21240 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2021-21240 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Public Cloud Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

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

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Public Cloud Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-2021-1637=1

Package List:

  • Public Cloud Module 15 (noarch)
    • python3-httplib2-0.19.0-1.8.1

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