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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (python-waitress) security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2025:0201-03
Product:            Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0201
Issue date:         2025-01-09
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2024-49768
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Summary: 

An update for python-waitress is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 16.2 (Train) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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.




Description:

Pure-python WSGI server

Security Fix(es):

* python-waitress: request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining
with invalid first request (CVE-2024-49768)

* Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource
exhaustion (CVE-2024-49769)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2024-49768

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322460
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322461