SB2019051142 - Fedora 29 update for python3

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) CRLF injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9740)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CRLF injection attacks.

The vulnerability exists within urllib2 implementation for Python 2.x and urllib3 implementation for Python 3.x when processing the path component of a URL after the "?" character within the urllib.request.urlopen() call. A remote attacker with ability to control URL, passed to the application, can use CRLF sequences to split the HTTP request and inject arbitrary HTTP headers into request, made by the application.

2) CRLF injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9947)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CRLF injection attacks.

The vulnerability exists within urllib2 implementation for Python 2.x and urllib3 implementation for Python 3.x when processing the path component of a URL that lacks the "?" character within the urllib.request.urlopen() call. A remote attacker with ability to control URL, passed to the application, can use CRLF sequences to split the HTTP request and inject arbitrary HTTP headers into request, made by the application.

3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9636)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing data in Unicode encoding with an incorrect netloc during NFKC normalization. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-ec26883852