ALAS-2019-1242

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-9740   CVE-2019-9947  

An issue was discovered in urllib2 in Python 2.x and urllib in Python 3.x. CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in the query string after a ? character) followed by an HTTP header or a Redis command. (CVE-2019-9740, CVE-2019-9947)

ALAS-2019-1242


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1242
Advisory Release Date: 2019-07-17 23:50 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-07-25 18:43 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in urllib2 in Python 2.x and urllib in Python 3.x. CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in the query string after a ? character) followed by an HTTP header or a Redis command. (CVE-2019-9740, CVE-2019-9947)


Affected Packages:

python34


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python34 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    python34-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.i686
    python34-devel-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.i686
    python34-test-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.i686
    python34-libs-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.i686
    python34-tools-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.i686
    python34-debuginfo-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.i686

src:
    python34-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    python34-libs-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-test-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-tools-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-devel-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    python34-debuginfo-3.4.10-1.45.amzn1.x86_64