A numpy security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: numpy security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3704-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3704 Issue date: 2019-11-05
CVE Names: CVE-2019-6446
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1. Summary:

An update for numpy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:

The numpy packages provide NumPY. NumPY is an extension to the Python programming language, which adds support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, and a library of mathematical functions that operate on such arrays.

Security Fix(es):

* numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-6446)

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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1667950 - CVE-2019-6446 numpy: crafted serialized object passed in numpy.load() in pickle python module allows arbitrary code execution
1687873 - numpy.test() fails

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.src.rpm

aarch64:
numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
numpy-debugsource-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
python3-numpy-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
python3-numpy-debuginfo-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
python3-numpy-f2py-1.14.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm

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https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6446
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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