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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20477: Moderate: python38:3.8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4641)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20477: Moderate: python38:3.8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4641)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/19/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
07/22/2022

Description

PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python38-Cython
  • alma-upgrade-python38-asn1crypto
  • alma-upgrade-python38-cffi
  • alma-upgrade-python38-chardet
  • alma-upgrade-python38-cryptography
  • alma-upgrade-python38-idna
  • alma-upgrade-python38-markupsafe
  • alma-upgrade-python38-mod_wsgi
  • alma-upgrade-python38-psycopg2
  • alma-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-doc
  • alma-upgrade-python38-psycopg2-tests
  • alma-upgrade-python38-pycparser
  • alma-upgrade-python38-pysocks
  • alma-upgrade-python38-pytz
  • alma-upgrade-python38-requests
  • alma-upgrade-python38-scipy

References

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