Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2382-1
14th October, 2014
requests vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Requests could be made to expose authentication credentials over the
network.
Software description
- requests
– elegant and simple HTTP library for Python
Details
Jakub Wilk discovered that Requests incorrectly reused authentication
credentials after being redirected. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to obtain authentication credentials intended for another site.
(CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
python3-requests
2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1
-
python-requests
2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.