CVE-2021-21240 | BDVDB-2026-148705 Detail

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httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. In httplib2 before version 0.19.0, a malicious server which responds with long series of "\xa0" characters in the "www-authenticate" header may cause Denial of Service (CPU burn while parsing header) of the httplib2 client accessing said server. This is fixed in version 0.19.0 which contains a new implementation of auth headers parsing using the pyparsing library.

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1. Version 12021-02-08Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22024-08-03Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.