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openSUSE Leap 15.4/15.5: SUSE-SU-2023:2957-1 Important Python Update

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2023
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Crucial security enhancements for python39 tackle various weaknesses and bolster system protection throughout openSUSE Leap.
This update for python39 fixes the following issues: Update to 3.9.17:

Description

This update for python39 fixes the following issues:

Update to 3.9.17:

* urllib.parse.urlsplit() now strips leading C0 control and space characters

following the specification for URLs defined by WHATWG in response to

CVE-2023-24329 (bsc#1208471).

* Fixed a security in flaw in uu.decode() that could allow for directory

traversal based on the input if no out_file was specified.

* Do not expose the local on-disk location in directory indexes produced by

http.client.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.

* trace. **main** now uses io.open_code() for files to be executed instead of

raw open().

* CVE-2007-4559: The extraction methods in tarfile, and

shutil.unpack_archive(), have a new filter argument that allows limiting tar

features than may be surprising or dangerous, such as creating files outside

the destination directory. See Extraction filters for details (fixing

bsc#1203750).

* Fixed a deadlock at shutdown when clearing thread states if any...

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Important 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 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-2957=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-2957=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-ESPOS-2023-2957=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2023-2957=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-RT-15-SP3-2023-2957=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS 15-SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2023-2957=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2023-2957=1

* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2

zypper in -t patch...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libpython3_9-1_0-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-testsuite-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-base-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-doc-devhelp-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-dbm-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-doc-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-curses-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-idle-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-dbm-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-tk-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-tools-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-base-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-testsuite-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-core-debugsource-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-curses-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* libpython3_9-1_0-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-tk-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-debugsource-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* python39-devel-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* python39-32bit-debuginfo-3.9.17-150300.4.30.1

*...

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References

* #1203750

* #1208471

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-4559.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-24329.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203750

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208471

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:2957-1
Rating: important

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