Product Errata

RLSA-2021:1898

Moderate: python-lxml security update

Topic

An update is available for python-lxml.

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

lxml is an XML processing library providing access to libxml2 and libxslt libraries using the Python ElementTree API.

Security Fix(es):

* python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783)

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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 5/18/2021

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references