Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-2948-1 python-bottle

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.