Security update for python-requests
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2016:0114-1 |
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| Rating: | moderate |
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has two security fixes can now be installed.
Description:
The python-requests module has been updated to version 2.8.1, which brings several fixes and enhancements:
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Fix handling of cookies on redirect. Previously a cookie without a host value set would use the hostname for the redirected URL exposing requests users to session fixation attacks and potentially cookie stealing. (bsc#922448, CVE-2015-2296)
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Add support for per-host proxies. This allows the proxies dictionary to have entries of the form {'<scheme>://<hostname>': '<proxy>'}. Host-specific proxies will be used in preference to the previously-supported scheme-specific ones, but the previous syntax will continue to work.
- Update certificate bundle to match "certifi" 2015.9.6.2's weak certificate bundle.
- Response.raise_for_status now prints the URL that failed as part of the exception message.
- requests.utils.get_netrc_auth now takes an raise_errors kwarg, defaulting to False. When True, errors parsing .netrc files cause exceptions to be thrown.
- Change to bundled projects import logic to make it easier to unbundle requests downstream.
- Change the default User-Agent string to avoid leaking data on Linux: now contains only the requests version.
- The json parameter to post() and friends will now only be used if neither data nor files are present, consistent with the documentation.
- Empty fields in the NO_PROXY environment variable are now ignored.
- Fix problem where httplib.BadStatusLine would get raised if combining stream=True with contextlib.closing.
- Prevent bugs where we would attempt to return the same connection back to the connection pool twice when sending a Chunked body.
- Digest Auth support is now thread safe.
- Resolved several bugs involving chunked transfer encoding and response framing.
- Copy a PreparedRequest's CookieJar more reliably.
- Support bytearrays when passed as parameters in the "files" argument.
- Avoid data duplication when creating a request with "str", "bytes", or "bytearray" input to the "files" argument.
- "Connection: keep-alive" header is now sent automatically.
- Support for connect timeouts. Timeout now accepts a tuple (connect, read) which is used to set individual connect and read timeouts.
For a comprehensive list of changes please refer to the package's change log or the Release Notes at http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/updates/#id3
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:
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SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE12-CLOUD-5-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-80=1 SUSE-SLE-HA-12-2016-80=1 -
Public Cloud Module 12
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-12-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Enterprise Storage 1.0 1
zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-1.0-2016-80=1 -
SUSE Enterprise Storage 2
zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-2-2016-80=1
Package List:
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SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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Public Cloud Module 12 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Enterprise Storage 1.0 1 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1
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SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 (noarch)
- python-requests-2.8.1-6.9.1