Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2531-1
16th March, 2015
requests vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Requests could be made to expose cookies over the network.
Software description
- requests
– elegant and simple HTTP library for Python
Details
Matthew Daley discovered that Requests incorrectly handled cookies without
host values when being redirected. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to perform session fixation or cookie stealing attacks.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
python3-requests
2.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
-
python-requests
2.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
python3-requests
2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2
-
python-requests
2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2
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.