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A python2.7 security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: python2.7-2.7.18-6.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-221823ebdd
2020-10-05 16:33:43.136921
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Name : python2.7
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 2.7.18
Release : 6.fc33
URL :   https://www.python.org/
Summary : Version 2.7 of the Python interpreter
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 Python 2 is not supported upstream after 2020-01-01, please use the
python3 package instead if you can.

This package also provides the "python2" executable.

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Update Information:

CVE-2020-26116: prevent HTTP request method CRLF injection 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 #1883014 - CVE-2020-26116 python: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883014
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-221823ebdd' 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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