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Fedora 34: 2021-aa6ebc01be Moderate: python-docx XML Attack Risk

fedora
Calendar Grey August 18, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial security patch and enhancement for python-docx in Fedora, targeting possible XML external entity vulnerabilities.
Security fix for [CVE-2016-5851](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5851)

Summary

A Python library for creating and updating Microsoft Word (.docx) files.

Security fix for

[CVE-2016-5851](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5851). Updates to

0.8.11.

* Tue Aug 10 2021 Benjamin A. Beasley 0.8.11-3

- Use the PyPI tarball to avoid redistributing ISO standard PDFs

* Fri Aug 6 2021 Benjamin A. Beasley 0.8.11-2

- Clean up some leftover historical debris in the spec file

* Fri Aug 6 2021 Benjamin A. Beasley 0.8.11-1

- Update to 0.8.11. (Fix CVE-2016-5851, fix RHBZ#1351082, fix RHBZ#1351083,

fix RHBZ#1349211, fix RHBZ#1926209.)

* Tue Jul 27 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.8.5-26

- Second attempt - Rebuilt for

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jun 4 2021 Python Maint - 0.8.5-25

- Rebuilt for Python 3.10

[ 1 ] Bug #1351082 - CVE-2016-5851 python-docx: XML External Entity Attack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351082

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-aa6ebc01be' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 0.8.11
Release: 3.fc34
Summary: Create and modify Word documents with Python

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