USN-6988-1: Twisted vulnerabilities

USN-6988-1: Twisted vulnerabilities
4 September 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Twisted.

Releases
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 ESM Ubuntu 16.04 ESM Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages
twisted - Event-based framework for internet applications

Details
It was discovered that Twisted incorrectly handled response order when
processing multiple HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to delay and manipulate responses.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-41671)

It was discovered that Twisted did not properly sanitize certain input.
An attacker could use this vulnerability to possibly execute an HTML
injection leading to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
(CVE-2024-41810)

Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04
python3-twisted - 24.3.0-1ubuntu0.1