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Fedora 35: FEDORA-2022-ec74ac4079 Critical: Python2 Mailcap Flaw

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Python 2.7 on Fedora 35 resolves issue linked to CVE-2015-20107 involving vulnerabilities within the mailcap functionality.
Security fix for CVE-2015-20107

Summary

Python 2 is an old version of the language that is incompatible with the 3.x

line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially

how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed

considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed in the

3.x line.

Note that Python 2 is not supported upstream after 2020-01-01, please use the

python3 package instead if you can.

This package also provides the "python2" executable.

Security fix for CVE-2015-20107

* Thu Jun 9 2022 Charalampos Stratakis - 2.7.18-22

- Security fix for CVE-2015-20107

Resolves: rhbz#2075390

[ 1 ] Bug #2076509 - CVE-2015-20107 python2.7: python(mailcap): findmatch() function does not sanitise the second argument [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2076509

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-ec74ac4079' 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 35
Version: 2.7.18
Release: 22.fc35
Summary: Version 2.7 of the Python interpreter

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