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Fedora 34: Advisory 2021-3f378dda90 Critical: Pip Unicode Handling Issue

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 34 has rolled out patches for `python-pip` that tackle significant security vulnerabilities related to unicode processing. It is essential to implement these updates without delay.
- Security fix for CVE-2021-28363

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 CVE-2021-28363. - Security fix for *pip incorrectly handled

unicode separators in git references*.

* Mon May 17 2021 Karolina Surma - 21.0.1-3

- Backport security fixes from pip 21.1.1

[ 1 ] Bug #1945136 - CVE-2021-28363 python-urllib3: HTTPS proxy host name not validated when using default SSLContext

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945136

[ 2 ] 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-2021-3f378dda90' 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 34
Version: 21.0.1
Release: 3.fc34
Summary: A tool for installing and managing Python packages

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