(RHSA-2022:1764) Moderate: python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 security update

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python38 (3.8), python38-devel (3.8). (BZ#1997680, BZ#1997860)

Security Fix(es):

• python: urllib: Regular expression DoS in AbstractBasicAuthHandler (CVE-2021-3733)

• python-lxml: HTML Cleaner allows crafted and SVG embedded scripts to pass through (CVE-2021-43818)

• python: urllib.parse does not sanitize URLs containing ASCII newline and tabs (CVE-2022-0391)

• python: urllib: HTTP client possible infinite loop on a 100 Continue response (CVE-2021-3737)

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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.