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Critical Security Update for Python39 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A minor security patch for python39 and python39-devel packages has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for the python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 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

security advisory security update update Red Hat Enterprise python Moderate module integrity

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: PyYAML-5.4.1-1.module+el8.5.0+10613+59a13ec4.src.rpm mod_wsgi-4.7.1-5.module+el8.7.0+16654+645aad7f.src.rpm numpy-1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+12204+54860423.src.rpm python-PyMySQL-0.10.1-2.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-cffi-1.14.3-2.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-chardet-3.0.4-19.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-cryptography-3.3.1-2.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-idna-2.10-3.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-lxml-4.6.5-1.module+el8.6.0+13933+9cf0c87c.src.rpm python-ply-3.11-10.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-psutil-5.8.0-4.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-psycopg2-2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-pycparser-2.20-3.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-pysocks-1.7.1-4.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-requests-2.25.0-2.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-toml-0.10.1-5.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-urllib3-1.25.10-4.module+el8.5.0+11712+ea2d2be1.src.rpm python-wheel-0.35.1-4.module+el8.5.0+12204+54860423.src.rpm python39-3.9.13-1.module+el8.7.0+15656+ffd4a257.src.rpm python3x-pip-20.2.4-7.module+el8.6.0+13003+6bb2c488.src.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7592-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7592
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for the python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update update Red Hat Enterprise python Moderate module integrity

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

2095271 - testsuite failures caused by expat: test_minidom, test_xml_etree_c, test_xml_etree

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