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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-1ddd5273d6 critical: Python 3.6 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security update for Python 3.6 in Fedora that resolves various vulnerabilities and concerns.
Security fix for CVE-2019-20907, CVE-2020-14422.

Summary

Python 3.6 package for developers.

This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older

version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run

your applications with Python 3.6, see other distributions

that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software Collections

or older Fedora releases.

Security fix for CVE-2019-20907, CVE-2020-14422.

* Fri Jul 31 2020 Charalampos Stratakis - 3.6.11-3

- Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files (CVE-2019-20907)

Resolves: rhbz#1856481

- Resolve hash collisions for Pv4Interface and IPv6Interface (CVE-2020-14422)

Resolves: rhbz#1854926

* Wed Jul 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.6.11-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1854926 - CVE-2020-14422 python: DoS via inefficiency in IPv{4,6}Interface classes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854926

[ 2 ] Bug #1856481 - CVE-2019-20907 python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856481

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-1ddd5273d6' 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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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 3.6.11
Release: 3.fc32
Summary: Version 3.6 of the Python interpreter

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