Product Errata

RLSA-2020:1605

Moderate: python27:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update is available for python-pymongo, python2-rpm-macros, python-docutils, pytest, python-psycopg2, python-PyMySQL, python-lxml, PyYAML, python-pytest-mock, python-attrs, python-jinja2, python-docs, python-requests, python-mock, python-ipaddress, python-funcsigs, python-py, python-chardet, python-markupsafe, python-pluggy, python-pygments, Cython, python-virtualenv, babel, python-dns, python-wheel, python-pysocks, python-coverage, python-setuptools_scm, pytz, python-nose, scipy, python-idna.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python2 (2.7.17). (BZ#1759944)

Security Fix(es):

* python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure (CVE-2018-20060)

* python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results (CVE-2018-20852)

* python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the '\r\n' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)

* python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown (CVE-2019-11324)

* python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses (CVE-2019-16056)

* python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header (CVE-2018-18074)

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 Rocky Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.