SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: python27-2.7.18-2.fc32
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-e9251de272
2020-07-24 01:13:00.082811
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Name : python27
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 2.7.18
Release : 2.fc32
URL : https://www.python.org/
Summary : Version 2.7 of the Python interpreter
Description :
Python 2 is an old version of the language that is incompatible with the 3.x
line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially
how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed
considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed in the
3.x line.
Note that Python 2 is not supported upstream after 2020-01-01, please use the
python3 package instead if you can.
This package also provides the "python2" executable.
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Update Information:
Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files (CVE-2019-20907)
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Jul 20 2020 Petr Viktorin - 2.7.18-2
- Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files (CVE-2019-20907)
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856481
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1856485 - CVE-2019-20907 python2: python: infinite loop in the tarfile module via crafted TAR archive [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856485
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-e9251de272' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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A python27 security update has been released for Fedora 32.
