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RHEL 8 RHSA-2022:7581 Moderate: Python 3.8 Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat revised python39 packages for RHEL to mitigate moderate security vulnerabilities affecting performance and code stability.
An update for the python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 modules 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, 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: mailcap: findmatch() function does not sanitize the second argument (CVE-2015-20107)
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 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-20107 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: Cython-0.29.14-4.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm PyYAML-5.4.1-1.module+el8.5.0+10721+14d8e0d5.src.rpm babel-2.7.0-11.module+el8.5.0+11015+9c1c7c42.src.rpm mod_wsgi-4.6.8-4.module+el8.7.0+16653+23ccaf52.src.rpm numpy-1.17.3-6.module+el8.5.0+12205+a865257a.src.rpm python-PyMySQL-0.10.1-1.module+el8.4.0+9692+8e86ab84.src.rpm python-asn1crypto-1.2.0-3.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-cffi-1.13.2-3.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-chardet-3.0.4-19.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-cryptography-2.8-3.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-idna-2.8-6.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-jinja2-2.11.3-1.module+el8.7.0+15575+d005caff.src.rpm python-lxml-4.4.1-7.module+el8.6.0+13958+214a5473.src.rpm python-markupsafe-1.1.1-6.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-ply-3.11-10.module+el8.4.0+9579+e9717e18.src.rpm python-psutil-5.6.4-4.module+el8.5.0+12031+10ce4870.src.rpm python-psycopg2-2.8.4-4.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-pycparser-2.19-3.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-pysocks-1.7.1-4.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-requests-2.22.0-9.module+el8.4.0+8888+89bc7e79.src.rpm python-urllib3-1.25.7-5.module+el8.5.0+11639+ea5b349d.src.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7581-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7581
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for the python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 modules is nowavailable 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 moderate software update security impact red hat enterprise python programming language

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch

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

Bugs Fixed

2075390 - CVE-2015-20107 python: mailcap: findmatch() function does not sanitize the second argument

2086141 - Update python38-jinja2 to 2.11.x

2090006 - Backport patch to handle TMPDIR in $PWD for pyproject macro support

2095265 - testsuite failures caused by expat: test_minidom, test_xml_etree_c, test_xml_etree

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