(RHSA-2024:2987) Moderate: python27:2.7 security 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.

Security Fix(es):

• pypa-setuptools: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py (CVE-2022-40897)

• python: use after free in heappushpop() of heapq module (CVE-2022-48560)

• python: XML External Entity in XML processing plistlib module (CVE-2022-48565)

• python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn’t stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

• jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)

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 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.