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ALSA-2020:4654 Not scored

Moderate: python27:2.7 security update

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Security Fix(es): * python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive (CVE-2019-20907) * python-pip: directory traversal in _download_http_url() function in src/pip/_internal/download.py (CVE-2019-20916) 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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published November 3, 2020
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 python-psycopg2-doc
AlmaLinux:8 python-sqlalchemy-doc
AlmaLinux:8 python2-Cython
AlmaLinux:8 python2-PyMySQL
AlmaLinux:8 python2-attrs
AlmaLinux:8 python2-chardet
AlmaLinux:8 python2-coverage
AlmaLinux:8 python2-dns
AlmaLinux:8 python2-docs
AlmaLinux:8 python2-docs-info
AlmaLinux:8 python2-docutils
AlmaLinux:8 python2-funcsigs
AlmaLinux:8 python2-idna
AlmaLinux:8 python2-ipaddress
AlmaLinux:8 python2-markupsafe
AlmaLinux:8 python2-mock
AlmaLinux:8 python2-pluggy
AlmaLinux:8 python2-psycopg2
AlmaLinux:8 python2-psycopg2-debug
AlmaLinux:8 python2-psycopg2-tests
AlmaLinux:8 python2-py
AlmaLinux:8 python2-pysocks
AlmaLinux:8 python2-pytest
AlmaLinux:8 python2-pytest-mock
AlmaLinux:8 python2-pytz
AlmaLinux:8 python2-pyyaml
AlmaLinux:8 python2-requests
AlmaLinux:8 python2-rpm-macros
AlmaLinux:8 python2-setuptools_scm
AlmaLinux:8 python2-sqlalchemy

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2020:4654

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Security Fix(es): * python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive (CVE-2019-20907) * python-pip: directory traversal in _download_http_url() function in src/pip/_internal/download.py (CVE-2019-20916) 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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence