Security update for python36

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3865-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2019-18348 ( SUSE ): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2019-18348 ( NVD ): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2019-20916 ( SUSE ): 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2019-20916 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2020-27619 ( SUSE ): 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2020-27619 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2020-8492 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2020-8492 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python36 fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2019-18348: Fixed a CRLF injection via the host part of the url passed to urlopen() (bsc#1155094)
  • CVE-2019-20916: Fixed a directory traversal in _download_http_url() (bsc#1176262).
  • CVE-2020-27619: Fixed an issue where the CJK codec tests call eval() on content retrieved via HTTP (bsc#1178009).
  • CVE-2020-8492: Fixed a regular expression in urrlib that was prone to denial of service via HTTP (bsc#1162367).
  • Working-around missing python-packaging dependency in python-Sphinx is not necessary anymore (bsc#1174571).
  • Build of python3 documentation is not independent on the version of Sphinx(bsc#1179630).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-3865=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-3865=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-3865=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-base-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-base-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-debugsource-3.6.12-4.25.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-base-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-base-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-debugsource-3.6.12-4.25.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • libpython3_6m1_0-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-base-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-base-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-debuginfo-3.6.12-4.25.1
    • python36-debugsource-3.6.12-4.25.1

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