RHSA-2017:0936

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2017-04-12 13:51 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:00
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: python-defusedxml and python-pysaml2 security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update for python-defusedxml and python-pysaml2 is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Details: The defusedxml package contains several Python-only updates for security vulnerabilities in Python's XML libraries. Defusedxml functions and classes can be used instead of the originals to protect against entity-expansion and DTD-retrieval issues. PySAML2 is the python implementation of SAML Version 2, containing all the functionality for building a SAML2 service provider or an identity provider, to be used in a WSGI environment. Security Fix(es): * An XML entity expansion vulnerability was found in python-pysaml2. A remote attacker could send a crafted request which would cause denial of service through resource exhaustion. (CVE-2016-10149)
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An XML entity expansion vulnerability was found in python-pysaml2. A remote attacker could send a crafted request which would cause denial of service through resource exhaustion.

CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Vendor Fix For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0936

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