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Fedora 32: 2020-307946cfb6 Moderate: Python-Lxml mXSS Security Issue

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent patch for Fedora 32 resolves a critical security vulnerability in python-lxml related to an inadequate parser, thereby strengthening the system's defenses.
This update fixes mXSS security vulnerability due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783)

Summary

lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It

provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree It

extends the ElementTree API significantly to offer support for XPath, RelaxNG,

XML Schema, XSLT, C14N and much more.To contact the project, go to the project

home page < or see our bug tracker at case you want to use the current ...

This update fixes mXSS security vulnerability due to the use of improper parser

(CVE-2020-27783)

* Fri Dec 18 2020 Mikolaj Izdebski - 4.4.1-5

- Fix mXSS vulnerability due to the use of improper parser

- Resolves: CVE-2020-27783

[ 1 ] Bug #1901633 - CVE-2020-27783 python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901633

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-307946cfb6' at the command

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

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

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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 32
Version: 4.4.1
Release: 5.fc32
Summary: XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API

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