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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3704-01 Moderate Numpy Update

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent numpy security patch from Red Hat tackles critical vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized code execution on Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for numpy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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

The numpy packages provide NumPY. NumPY is an extension to the Python programming language, which adds support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, and a library of mathematical functions that operate on such arrays.
Security Fix(es):
* numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-6446)
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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat arbitrary code execution python package numpy

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6446 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3704-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3704
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for numpy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat arbitrary code execution python package numpy

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1667950 - CVE-2019-6446 numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code execution

1687873 - numpy.test() fails

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