Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-741
Advisory Release Date: 2016-09-01 18:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-09-01 18:00 Pacific
It was discovered that the Python CGIHandler class did not properly protect against the HTTP_PROXY variable name clash in a CGI context. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a Python CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.
Affected Packages:
python34, python27, python26
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python34 to update your system.
Run yum update python27 to update your system.
Run yum update python26 to update your system.
i686:
python27-libs-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.i686
python27-test-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.i686
python27-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.i686
python27-devel-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.i686
python27-tools-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.i686
python27-debuginfo-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.i686
python26-test-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.i686
python26-libs-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.i686
python26-debuginfo-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.i686
python26-devel-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.i686
python26-tools-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.i686
python26-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.i686
python34-devel-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.i686
python34-debuginfo-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.i686
python34-test-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.i686
python34-libs-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.i686
python34-tools-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.i686
python34-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.i686
src:
python27-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.src
python26-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.src
python34-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.src
x86_64:
python27-debuginfo-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.x86_64
python27-libs-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.x86_64
python27-tools-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.x86_64
python27-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.x86_64
python27-devel-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.x86_64
python27-test-2.7.12-2.120.amzn1.x86_64
python26-libs-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.x86_64
python26-tools-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.x86_64
python26-debuginfo-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.x86_64
python26-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.x86_64
python26-test-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.x86_64
python26-devel-2.6.9-2.88.amzn1.x86_64
python34-tools-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.x86_64
python34-libs-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.x86_64
python34-debuginfo-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.x86_64
python34-devel-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.x86_64
python34-test-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.x86_64
python34-3.4.3-1.33.amzn1.x86_64