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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2030-01 Moderate: Python Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
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Red Hat released a Moderate Security Advisory on Python, outlining important updates for Linux 7 to address bugs and vulnerabilities, ensuring system safety
An update for python is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.
Security Fix(es):
* python: Missing salt initialization in _elementtree.c module (CVE-2018-14647)
* python: NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate (CVE-2019-5010)
* python: CRLF injection via the query part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9740)
* python: CRLF injection via the path part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9947)
* python: Undocumented local_file protocol allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms (CVE-2019-9948)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux python

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14647 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5010 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9740 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9947 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9948 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: python-2.7.5-86.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: python-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.i686.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-libs-2.7.5-86.el7.i686.rpm python-libs-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: python-debug-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-devel-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-test-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-tools-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm tkinter-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: python-2.7.5-86.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: python-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.i686.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-devel-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-libs-2.7.5-86.el7.i686.rpm python-libs-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: python-debug-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-test-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm python-tools-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm tkinter-2.7.5-86.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: python-2.7.5-86.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: python-2.7.5-86.el7.ppc64.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.ppc.rpm python-debuginfo-2.7.5-86.el7.ppc64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2030-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2030
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for python is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux python

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1629982 - Python can sometimes create incorrect .pyc files

1631822 - CVE-2018-14647 python: Missing salt initialization in _elementtree.c module

1666519 - CVE-2019-5010 python: NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate

1688169 - CVE-2019-9740 python: CRLF injection via the query part of the url passed to urlopen()

1695570 - CVE-2019-9948 python: Undocumented local_file protocol allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms

1695572 - CVE-2019-9947 python: CRLF injection via the path part of the url passed to urlopen()

1703600 - python2-devel can't be installed during RHEL 7 to 8 upgrade due to incorrect Obsoletes

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