This update for python, python-base fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2018-1000802: Prevent command injection in shutil module
(make_archive function) via passage of unfiltered user input
(bsc#1109663).
- CVE-2018-1061: Fixed DoS via regular expression backtracking in
difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method in difflib (bsc#1088004).
- CVE-2018-1060: Fixed DoS via regular expression catastrophic
backtracking in apop() method in pop3lib (bsc#1088009).
Bug fixes:
- bsc#1086001: python tarfile uses random order.
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.