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ALSA-2021:1879 Not scored

Moderate: python38:3.8 security update

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: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client (CVE-2020-26116) * python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783) * python: Stack-based buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c (CVE-2021-3177) 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 May 18, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 python38-Cython
AlmaLinux:8 python38-PyMySQL
AlmaLinux:8 python38-asn1crypto
AlmaLinux:8 python38-cffi
AlmaLinux:8 python38-chardet
AlmaLinux:8 python38-cryptography
AlmaLinux:8 python38-idna
AlmaLinux:8 python38-markupsafe
AlmaLinux:8 python38-mod_wsgi
AlmaLinux:8 python38-ply
AlmaLinux:8 python38-psycopg2
AlmaLinux:8 python38-psycopg2-doc
AlmaLinux:8 python38-psycopg2-tests
AlmaLinux:8 python38-pycparser
AlmaLinux:8 python38-pysocks
AlmaLinux:8 python38-pytz
AlmaLinux:8 python38-requests
AlmaLinux:8 python38-scipy
AlmaLinux:8 python38-six

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2021:1879

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: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client (CVE-2020-26116) * python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783) * python: Stack-based buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c (CVE-2021-3177) 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