USN-6159-1

It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled certain redirect. An remote attacker could possibly use this issue to redirect a user to an arbitrary web site and conduct a phishing attack by having user access a specially crafted URL.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / python-tornado

Package

Name: python-tornado
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-tornado@4.2.1-1ubuntu3.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.2.1-1ubuntu3.1+esm1

Affected versions

4.*

4.2.1-1ubuntu2

4.2.1-1ubuntu3

4.2.1-1ubuntu3.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python-tornado",
            "binary_version": "4.2.1-1ubuntu3.1+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-tornado",
            "binary_version": "4.2.1-1ubuntu3.1+esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}