Issued:
2020-10-20
Updated:
2020-10-20

RHSA-2020:4299 - Moderate: rh-python38 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-python38 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-python38-python, rh-python38-python-psutil, and rh-python38-python-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-python38-python (3.8.6). (BZ#1885289)

Security Fix(es):

  • python-psutil: double free because of refcount mishandling (CVE-2019-18874)

  • python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive (CVE-2019-20907)

  • python: DoS via inefficiency in IPv{4,6}Interface classes (CVE-2020-14422)

  • python: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client (CVE-2020-26116)

  • python-urllib3: CRLF injection via HTTP request method (CVE-2020-26137)

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 Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z)1s390x
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z)1s390x
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z)1s390x
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE)1ppc64le
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE)1ppc64le
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE)1ppc64le
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM)1aarch64

Updated Packages

  • rh-python38-python-idle-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-tkinter-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-5.6.4-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-test-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-test-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-5.6.4-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-libs-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-urllib3-1.25.7-6.el7.src.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-devel-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debuginfo-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-libs-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-5.6.4-5.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-debuginfo-5.6.4-5.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-test-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debug-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-urllib3-1.25.7-6.el7.noarch.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-idle-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debug-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-idle-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-debuginfo-5.6.4-5.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-debuginfo-5.6.4-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-debuginfo-5.6.4-5.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debuginfo-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-srpm-macros-3.8.6-1.el7.noarch.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-tkinter-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debuginfo-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-devel-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debug-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-5.6.4-5.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-tkinter-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-test-3.8.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-tkinter-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debuginfo-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-debug-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-libs-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-devel-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-libs-3.8.6-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-3.8.6-1.el7.src.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-psutil-5.6.4-5.el7.src.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-idle-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-rpm-macros-3.8.6-1.el7.noarch.rpm
  • rh-python38-python-devel-3.8.6-1.el7.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information