Issued:
2020-03-05
Updated:
2020-03-05

RHSA-2020:0720 - Low: python-waitress security update

Synopsis

Low: python-waitress security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for python-waitress is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Waitress is a pure Python WSGI server which supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.

Security Fix(es):

  • HTTP request smuggling through LF vs CRLF handling (CVE-2019-16785)

  • HTTP request smuggling through invalid Transfer-Encoding (CVE-2019-16786)

  • HTTP Request Smuggling through Invalid whitespace characters in headers (CVE-2019-16789)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenStack15x86_64
Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power15ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • python-waitress-1.4.2-1.el8ost.src.rpm
  • python3-waitress-1.4.2-1.el8ost.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information