| Name | CVE-2016-5699 |
| Description | CRLF injection vulnerability in the HTTPConnection.putheader function in urllib2 and urllib in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.10 and 3.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in a URL. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1663-1, DLA-522-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| python2.7 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.7.9-2-ds1-1+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.7.13-2+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.7.13-2+deb9u9 | fixed |
| buster | 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.7.16-2+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 | fixed |
| python3.4 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.4.2-1+deb8u17 | fixed |
| python3.5 (PTS) | stretch (security) | 3.5.3-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.5.3-1+deb9u9 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
- python3.5 <not-affected> (Fixed with initial upload to Debian)
https://bugs.python.org/issue22928
Fixed in 3.4 / 3.5: revision 94952: https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bf3e1c9b80e9
Fixed in 2.7: revision 94951: https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1c45047c5102