SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2020:1524-1)

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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2020:1524-1)

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security 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 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2020-1524=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2020-1524=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP5-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP4-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2020-1524=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2020-1524=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2020-1524=1

HPE Helion Openstack 8 :

zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2020-1524=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137580

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1524-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/18/2020

Updated: 1/13/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18348

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-demo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-idle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-base-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-base-debugsource:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-debugsource:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-devel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18348, CVE-2020-8492, CVE-2019-9674