Mageia 7 & 8 Security Notice MGASA-2021-0267: Critical Python-Babel Flaw
mageia
June 18, 2021
Updated python-babel packages fix a security vulnerability: Relative Path Traversal in Babel 2.9.0 allows an attacker to load arbitrary locale files on disk and execute arbitrary ...
Summary
Updated python-babel packages fix a security vulnerability:
Relative Path Traversal in Babel 2.9.0 allows an attacker to load
arbitrary locale files on disk and execute arbitrary code
(CVE-2021-20095).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29011
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4962-1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/J6N66MDKHESXGMHWX4YKNW7DWXMQVL3F/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20095
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/python-babel-2.6.0-2.1.mga7
- 8/core/python-babel-2.9.1-1.mga8
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Publication date: 18 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0267.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-20095
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