USN-5199-1

It was discovered that the urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in Python contains regex with a quadratic worst-case time complexity. Specially crafted traffic from a malicious HTTP server could cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) condition for a client. (CVE-2021-3733)

It was discovered that the Python urllib http client could enter into an infinite loop when incorrectly handling certain server responses (100 Continue response). Specially crafted traffic from a malicious HTTP server could cause a denial of service (DoS) condition for a client. (CVE-2021-3737)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / python3.6

Package

Name: python3.6
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python3.6@3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.6?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.6

Affected versions

3.*

3.6.3-1ubuntu1

3.6.4~rc1-1

3.6.4~rc1-2

3.6.4-1

3.6.4-2

3.6.4-3build1

3.6.4-4

3.6.5~rc1-1

3.6.5-3

3.6.6-1~18.04

3.6.7-1~18.04

3.6.8-1~18.04.1

3.6.8-1~18.04.2

3.6.8-1~18.04.3

3.6.9-1~18.04

3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1

3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.1

3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.3

3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.4

Ecosystem specific

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