CVE-2021-21240: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. In httplib2, 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.
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