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openSUSE: 2019:0159-1 Moderate: TLS Certificate Validation Issue

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
We are thrilled to announce a new openSUSE update that addresses a TLS vulnerability in python-urllib3, offering essential security upgrades and features
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for python-urllib3 fixes the following issues:

python-urllib3 was updated to version 1.22 (fate#326733, bsc#1110422) and

contains new features and lots of bugfixes:

The full changelog can be found on:

https://github.com/Lukasa/urllib3/blob/1.22/CHANGES.rst

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2016-9015: TLS certificate validation vulnerability (bsc#1024540).

(This issue did not affect our previous version 1.16.)

Non security issues fixed:

- bsc#1074247: Fix test suite, use correct date (gh#shazow/urllib3#1303).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-159=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

python-urllib3-1.22-4.4.1

python3-urllib3-1.22-4.4.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9015.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024540

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074247

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110422

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0159-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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