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SUSE-SU-2020:1524-1 Not scored

Security update for python

This update for python to version 2.7.17 fixes the following issues: Syncing with lots of upstream bug fixes and security fixes. Bug fixes: - CVE-2019-9674: Improved the documentation to reflect the dangers of zip-bombs (bsc#1162825). - CVE-2019-18348: Fixed a CRLF injection via the host part of the url passed to urlopen(). Now an InvalidURL exception is raised (bsc#1155094). - CVE-2020-8492: Fixed a regular expression in urllib that was prone to denial of service via HTTP (bsc#1162367). - Fixed mismatches between libpython and python-base versions (bsc#1162224). - Fixed segfault in libpython2.7.so.1 (bsc#1073748). - Unified packages among openSUSE:Factory and SLE versions (bsc#1159035). - Added idle.desktop and idle.appdata.xml to provide IDLE in menus (bsc#1153830). - Excluded tsl_check files from python-base to prevent file conflict with python-strict-tls-checks package (bsc#945401). - Changed the name of idle3 icons to idle3.png to avoid collision with Python 2 version (bsc#1165894). Additionally a new 'shared-python-startup' package is provided containing startup files. python-rpm-macros was updated to fix: - Do not write .pyc files for tests (bsc#1171561)

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

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 python
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 python
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 shared-python-startup
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 python-doc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS python
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 python
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 shared-python-startup
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5 python-base
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS python-rpm-macros
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS python-base
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL shared-python-startup
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS python-doc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 python-base
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 python-base
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS shared-python-startup
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 python-doc
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS python
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 python-doc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 python-base
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS shared-python-startup
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 python-rpm-macros
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL python-doc
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 python-base

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2020:1524-1

This update for python to version 2.7.17 fixes the following issues: Syncing with lots of upstream bug fixes and security fixes. Bug fixes: - CVE-2019-9674: Improved the documentation to reflect the dangers of zip-bombs (bsc#1162825). - CVE-2019-18348: Fixed a CRLF injection via the host part of the url passed to urlopen(). Now an InvalidURL exception is raised (bsc#1155094). - CVE-2020-8492: Fixed a regular expression in urllib that was prone to denial of service via HTTP (bsc#1162367). - Fixed mismatches between libpython and python-base versions (bsc#1162224). - Fixed segfault in libpython2.7.so.1 (bsc#1073748). - Unified packages among openSUSE:Factory and SLE versions (bsc#1159035). - Added idle.desktop and idle.appdata.xml to provide IDLE in menus (bsc#1153830). - Excluded tsl_check files from python-base to prevent file conflict with python-strict-tls-checks package (bsc#945401). - Changed the name of idle3 icons to idle3.png to avoid collision with Python 2 version (bsc#1165894). Additionally a new 'shared-python-startup' package is provided containing startup files. python-rpm-macros was updated to fix: - Do not write .pyc files for tests (bsc#1171561)

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence