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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: XSS vulnerability in the documentation XML-RPC server in server_title field (CVE-2019-16935)
• python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive (CVE-2019-20907)
• python: wrong backtracking in urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler allows for a ReDoS (CVE-2020-8492)
• python: DoS via inefficiency in IPv{4,6}Interface classes (CVE-2020-14422)

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 8.3 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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1724996 - Speed up Python with -fno-semantic-interposition
• BZ - 1763229 - CVE-2019-16935 python: XSS vulnerability in the documentation XML-RPC server in server_title field
• BZ - 1772992 - python3-config --configdir incorrect
• BZ - 1809065 - CVE-2020-8492 python: wrong backtracking in urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler allows for a ReDoS
• BZ - 1814392 - test_site is failing on an installed python3
• BZ - 1851090 - distutils module: sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBPL') returns non existing directory
• BZ - 1854926 - CVE-2020-14422 python: DoS via inefficiency in IPv{4,6}Interface classes
• BZ - 1856481 - CVE-2019-20907 python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive

CVEs

• CVE-2019-16935
• CVE-2019-20907
• CVE-2020-8492
• CVE-2020-14422

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/