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A python2 security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: python2-2.7.18-6.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-e33acdea18
2020-10-30 01:14:56.947527
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Name : python2
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 2.7.18
Release : 6.fc31
URL :   https://www.python.org/
Summary : An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
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 documentation for Python 2 is provided in the python2-docs
package.

This package provides the "python2" executable; most of the actual
implementation is within the "python2-libs" package.

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Update Information:

Fix CVE-2020-26116: Reject control chars in HTTP method in httplib
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 30 2020 Petr Viktorin - 2.7.18-6
- CVE-2020-26116: Reject control chars in HTTP method in httplib.putrequest
* Tue Sep 29 2020 Petr Viktorin - 2.7.18-5
- Import patches from GitHub tree
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1883248 - CVE-2020-26116 python2: python: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883248
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-e33acdea18' 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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