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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-4201-04 Moderate Path Traversal Risk

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The newest release from Red Hat enhances glibc with crucial security patches aimed at resolving moderate vulnerabilities within Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for babel 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

Babel provides tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs, and a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.
Security Fix(es):
* python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2021-20095, CVE-2021-42771)
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 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix moderate severity red hat enterprise linux path traversal babel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20095 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42771 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: babel-2.5.1-7.el8.src.rpm
noarch: python3-babel-2.5.1-7.el8.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4201-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4201
Issue date: 2021-11-09

Topic

An update for babel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise 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 security issue bug fix moderate severity red hat enterprise linux path traversal babel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1955615 - CVE-2021-20095 CVE-2021-42771 python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and execute arbitrary code

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