(RHSA-2020:1605) Moderate: python27:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python2 (2.7.17). (BZ#1759944)

Security Fix(es):

• python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure (CVE-2018-20060)

• python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results (CVE-2018-20852)

• python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the ‘\r\n’ sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)

• python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown (CVE-2019-11324)

• python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses (CVE-2019-16056)

• python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header (CVE-2018-18074)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.