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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-a122fe704d Critical: Python Information Leak

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 34 instance python3 patch addressing potential data exposure from CVE-2020-1234 now ready for application.
Security fix for CVE-2019-9636

Summary

Python is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted programming

language, designed with an emphasis on code readability.

It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of

third-party libraries.

The python3 package provides the "python3" executable: the reference

interpreter for the Python language, version 3.

The majority of its standard library is provided in the python3-libs package,

which should be installed automatically along with python3.

The remaining parts of the Python standard library are broken out into the

python3-tkinter and python3-test packages, which may need to be installed

separately.

Documentation for Python is provided in the python3-docs package.

Packages containing additional libraries for Python are generally named with

the "python3-" prefix.

Security fix for CVE-2019-9636

[ 1 ] Bug #1688543 - CVE-2019-9636 python: Information Disclosure due to urlsplit improper NFKC normalization

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1688543

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-a122fe704d' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 3.7.2
Release: 8.fc30
Summary: Interpreter of the Python programming language

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