Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 659
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 659

openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2019:1104-1 Important Update for Python Libraries

opensuse
Calendar Grey April 2, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial patch addresses multiple vulnerabilities in Python packages for openSUSE, ensuring improved system safety.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

Description

This update for python-cryptography, python-pyOpenSSL fixes the following

issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-1000808: A memory leak due to missing reference checking in

PKCS#12 store handling was fixed (bsc#1111634)

- CVE-2018-1000807: A use-after-free in X509 object handling was fixed

(bsc#1111635)

This update also contains the following tracked bug fixes:

- avoid bad interaction with python-cryptography package. (bsc#1021578)

- Avoid regression accessesing non-existing attribute _from_raw_x509_ptr

in object X509 (bsc#1119077)

- Add python-setuptools as a requirement. (bsc#1052927)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2: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-2019-1104=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

python-pyOpenSSL-16.0.0-5.8.2

python-pyOpenSSL-doc-16.0.0-5.8.2

python3-pyOpenSSL-16.0.0-5.8.2

python3-pyOpenSSL-doc-16.0.0-5.8.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

python-cryptography-1.3.1-5.3.1

python-cryptography-debuginfo-1.3.1-5.3.1

python-cryptography-debugsource-1.3.1-5.3.1

python3-cryptography-1.3.1-5.3.1

python3-cryptography-debuginfo-1.3.1-5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000807.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000808.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1021578

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052927

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111634

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111635

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1119077

--

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1104-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here