Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2948-1 python-bottle -- security update

Date Reported:
04 Jun 2014
Affected Packages:
python-bottle
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3137.
More information:

It was discovered that Bottle, a WSGI-framework for Python, performed a too permissive detection of JSON content, resulting a potential bypass of security mechanisms.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.11-1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-bottle packages.