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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 python27 Moderate Advisory RHSA-2020:1605-01

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Moderate Red Hat Announcement regarding python27:2.7 upgrade addressing vulnerabilities and errors. Comprehensive CVE information included.
An update for the python27:2.7 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectorsfor MySQL and PostgreSQL.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python2 (2.7.17). (BZ#1759944)
Security Fix(es):
* python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure (CVE-2018-20060)
* python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results (CVE-2018-20852)
* python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the ' ' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)
* python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown (CVE-2019-11324)
* python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses (CVE-2019-16056)
* python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header (CVE-2018-18074)
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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity credential exposure python27 cross-host redirect

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18074 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20060 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20852 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11236 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11324 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16056 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: Cython-0.28.1-7.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm PyYAML-3.12-16.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm babel-2.5.1-9.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm numpy-1.14.2-13.module+el8.1.0+3323+7ac3e00f.src.rpm pytest-3.4.2-13.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-PyMySQL-0.8.0-10.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-attrs-17.4.0-10.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-backports-1.0-15.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.5.0.1-11.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-chardet-3.0.4-10.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-coverage-4.5.1-4.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-dns-1.15.0-10.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-docs-2.7.16-2.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-docutils-0.14-12.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-funcsigs-1.0.2-13.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-idna-2.5-7.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-ipaddress-1.0.18-6.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-jinja2-2.10-8.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-lxml-4.2.3-3.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm python-markupsafe-0.23-19.module+el8.1.0+3111+de3f2d8e.src.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1605-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for the python27:2.7 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.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 bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity credential exposure python27 cross-host redirect

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1643829 - CVE-2018-18074 python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header

1649153 - CVE-2018-20060 python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure

1659551 - python-virtualenv bundles pip and pip is using bundled requests and a bundled root certificate

1700824 - CVE-2019-11236 python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the '

' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service

1702473 - CVE-2019-11324 python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown

1740347 - CVE-2018-20852 python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results

1749839 - CVE-2019-16056 python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses

1762422 - The fix CVE-2018-18074 leads to a regression

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