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