SB2019102712 - OpenSUSE Linux update for python
Published: October 27, 2019
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16056)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing multiple occurrences of the "@" character in an email address. An application that uses the email module and implements some kind of
checks on the From/To headers of a message could be tricked into
accepting an email address that should be denied.
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16935)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing the server_title field in the XML-RPC server (Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py) in Python 2.x, and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
3) 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.