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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | httplib2: Decompression Bomb Denial of Service via Unbounded gzip/deflate Response Handling | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-409 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-07-08T19:34:05.150Z
Reserved: 2026-07-07T18:20:06.127Z
Link: CVE-2026-59939
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