CVE-2026-59939

Publication date 9 July 2026

Last updated 16 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate in _decompressContent in httplib2/init.py, allowing a malicious or compromised HTTP server to return a small compressed payload that expands to an arbitrarily large size in memory and causes MemoryError or OOM-kill in the client process. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
python-httplib2 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 0.22.0-1ubuntu0.1
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 0.20.4-3ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 0.20.2-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package Patch details
python-httplib2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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