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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1561 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-04-23
Updated:
2020-04-23

RHSA-2020:1561 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: python-twisted-web security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for python-twisted-web is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. Twisted Web is a complete web server, aimed at hosting web applications using Twisted and Python, but fully able to serve static pages too.

Security Fix(es):

  • python-twisted: HTTP request smuggling when presented with two Content-Length headers (CVE-2020-10108)
  • python-twisted: HTTP request smuggling when presented with a Content-Length and a chunked Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2020-10109)

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1813439 - CVE-2020-10108 python-twisted: HTTP request smuggling when presented with two Content-Length headers
  • BZ - 1813447 - CVE-2020-10109 python-twisted: HTTP request smuggling when presented with a Content-Length and a chunked Transfer-Encoding header

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-10108
  • CVE-2020-10109

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
x86_64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a9b78295faddb0754b5be9311a4ba18eb31b0a72895a9d73230ee49336301d7b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
x86_64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a9b78295faddb0754b5be9311a4ba18eb31b0a72895a9d73230ee49336301d7b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
x86_64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a9b78295faddb0754b5be9311a4ba18eb31b0a72895a9d73230ee49336301d7b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
x86_64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a9b78295faddb0754b5be9311a4ba18eb31b0a72895a9d73230ee49336301d7b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
s390x
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 6b2871ade27dce8aa7f0fba75df21998ca45fa091c8f9fafd8b73d3e05d5080c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
ppc64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 2652ac79772cf36081f0c59c254dcd683a9fa6c1509de5067e1053f45b8074f4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
x86_64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a9b78295faddb0754b5be9311a4ba18eb31b0a72895a9d73230ee49336301d7b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
ppc64le
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 51bb25382d9aaec6b1ea734ebb12aa58d0f31ce456c2cabf0f0872c022422d37

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
s390x
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 6b2871ade27dce8aa7f0fba75df21998ca45fa091c8f9fafd8b73d3e05d5080c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
ppc64
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 2652ac79772cf36081f0c59c254dcd683a9fa6c1509de5067e1053f45b8074f4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7

SRPM
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: ed8eeaba192888efe948da04b1ba4591865a3f91d2f4935b2754e5026bef95ca
ppc64le
python-twisted-web-12.1.0-7.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 51bb25382d9aaec6b1ea734ebb12aa58d0f31ce456c2cabf0f0872c022422d37

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