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An update for python3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate (CVE-2019-5010)
• 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)

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from 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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1634784 - python3 hard-codes annobin usage
• BZ - 1639531 - test_ssl fails on ppc64le
• BZ - 1665514 - python3: RPMDiff warning - manpage with .gz suffix is not really gzipped
• BZ - 1666519 - CVE-2019-5010 python: NULL pointer dereference using a specially crafted X509 certificate
• BZ - 1671353 - http.client doesn't support Post-Handshake Authentication (TLS 1.3)
• BZ - 1688169 - CVE-2019-9740 python: CRLF injection via the query part of the url passed to urlopen()
• BZ - 1695570 - CVE-2019-9948 python: Undocumented local_file protocol allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms
• BZ - 1695572 - CVE-2019-9947 python: CRLF injection via the path part of the url passed to urlopen()
• BZ - 1701286 - Use RPM built wheels of setuptools and pip in Python's ensurepip
• BZ - 1725721 - SSLContext.post_handshake_auth implicitly enables cert validation
• BZ - 1731424 - hmac.HMAC() is not FIPS compliant
• BZ - 1744670 - hashlib.md5 broken in FIPS mode without workaround available
• BZ - 1745499 - mod_wsgi: hashlib.get_fips_mode() fails with ValueError: [PEM routines: get_name] no start line
• BZ - 1745685 - Make hashlib.get_fips_mode() a private function
• BZ - 1760106 - FAIL_RETURN_IN_FIPS_MODE() patch breaks mod_wsgi: ValueError: unsupported hash type blake2b

CVEs

• CVE-2019-5010
• CVE-2019-9740
• CVE-2019-9947
• CVE-2019-9948

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/