RHSA-2020:0230 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-reportlab is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-reportlab is a library used for generation of PDF documents.

Security Fix(es):

• python-reportlab: code injection in colors.py allows attacker to execute code (CVE-2019-17626)

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1769661 - CVE-2019-17626 python-reportlab: code injection in colors.py allows attacker to execute code

CVEs

• CVE-2019-17626

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important