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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2020:1524-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 137580
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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
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027282
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1041090
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042670
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073269
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073748
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078326
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078485
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081750
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084650
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086001
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149792
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153830
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155094
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159035
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162224
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162367
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162825
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165894
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170411
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171561
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=945401
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18348/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9674/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 137580
File Name: suse_SU-2020-1524-1.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 6/18/2020
Updated: 3/6/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18348
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 5.5
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:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2019