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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2382-1
October 14, 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 versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
python-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1
python3-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2382-1
CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/requests/2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1

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