httplib2: Decompression Bomb Denial of Service via Unbounded gzip/deflate Response Handling

Summary The httplib2 HTTP client library performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate. A malicious or compromised HTTP server can return a small compressed payload approximately 150 KB that expands to an arbitrarily large size in memory 1...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-59939

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with...

PT-2026-56548

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions httplib2 versions prior to 0.32.0 Description An issue exists where the library performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate within the decompressContent function in httplib2/init.py. ...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11203-1 python313-httplib2-0.32.0-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the python313-httplib2-0.32.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

The vulnerability of the httplib2 component from the Python-httplib2 library allows attackers to compromise data integrity.

The vulnerability of the httplib2 component in the Python-httplib2 library is related to the lack of measures taken to neutralize CRLF sequences. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to compromise data integrity...