Issued:
2020-04-01
Updated:
2020-04-01

RHSA-2020:1268 - Moderate: python security update

Synopsis

Moderate: python security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for python is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: DOS via regular expression backtracking in difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method in difflib (CVE-2018-1061)

  • python: Missing salt initialization in _elementtree.c module (CVE-2018-14647)

  • python: CRLF injection via the query part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9740)

  • python: CRLF injection via the path part of the url passed to urlopen() (CVE-2019-9947)

  • python: Undocumented local_file protocol allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms (CVE-2019-9948)

  • python: DOS via regular expression catastrophic backtracking in apop() method in pop3lib (CVE-2018-1060)

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.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.5x86_64

Updated Packages

  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-debug-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-debug-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-devel-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tkinter-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390.rpm
  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390.rpm
  • tkinter-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-devel-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.i686.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc.rpm
  • tkinter-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-devel-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-tools-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-debug-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-test-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-debug-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-test-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-test-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-test-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-devel-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-tools-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • tkinter-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
  • python-2.7.5-74.el7_5.src.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc.rpm
  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-tools-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-tools-2.7.5-74.el7_5.s390x.rpm
  • python-debuginfo-2.7.5-74.el7_5.ppc64.rpm
  • python-libs-2.7.5-74.el7_5.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information