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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-1b6848f31c Critical: Pip Unicode Handling Issue

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Emergency patch released for Fedora 33 addressing python-pip's management of Unicode delimiters in git links. Essential update information included.
Security fix for *pip incorrectly handled unicode separators in git references*.

Summary

pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages

written in Python. Many packages can be found in the Python Package Index

(PyPI). pip is a recursive acronym that can stand for either "Pip Installs

Packages" or "Pip Installs Python".

Security fix for *pip incorrectly handled unicode separators in git references*.

* Mon May 17 2021 Karolina Surma - 20.2.2-2

- Backport security fix from pip 21.1.1

[ 1 ] Bug #1962856 - python-pip: pip incorrectly handled unicode separators in git references

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1962856

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-1b6848f31c' 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 33
Version: 20.2.2
Release: 2.fc33
Summary: A tool for installing and managing Python packages

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