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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-8492 Important: python39 Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2022
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An update for the python39:3.9 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extend...

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: local privilege escalation via the multiprocessing forkserver start method (CVE-2022-42919)
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.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42919 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source: PyYAML-5.4.1-1.module+el8.4.0+10484+27ce8e03.src.rpm mod_wsgi-4.7.1-4.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm numpy-1.19.4-2.module+el8.4.0+15042+dc5a279b.1.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-4.6.2-2.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.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-urllib3-1.25.10-3.module+el8.4.0+9822+20bf1249.src.rpm python-wheel-0.35.1-3.module+el8.4.0+15042+dc5a279b.1.src.rpm python39-3.9.2-2.module+el8.4.0+17197+13952279.src.rpm python3x-pip-20.2.4-3.module+el8.4.0+15042+dc5a279b.1.src.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:8492-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8492
Issue date: 2022-11-16

Topic

An update for the python39:3.9 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support,and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

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Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2138705 - CVE-2022-42919 python: local privilege escalation via the multiprocessing forkserver start method

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