Security update for python-waitress

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3292-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2019-16785 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16785 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16786 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16786 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16789 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16789 ( NVD ): 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16792 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-16792 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3

An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-waitress to version 1.4.3 fixes the following security issues:

  • CVE-2019-16785: HTTP request smuggling through LF vs CRLF handling (bsc#1161088).
  • CVE-2019-16786: HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding (bsc#1161089).
  • CVE-2019-16789: HTTP request smuggling through invalid whitespace characters (bsc#1160790).
  • CVE-2019-16792: HTTP request smuggling by sending the Content-Length header twice (bsc#1161670).

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:

  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2020-3292=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 (noarch)
    • python-waitress-1.4.3-3.3.1

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