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.

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.

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CVE-2024-49768: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP
 Request/Response Smuggling') (CWE-444)
CVE-2024-49769: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CWE-772)