USN-4151-1: Python vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n
Several security issues were fixed in Python.<\/p>\n
It was discovered that Python incorrectly parsed certain email addresses. A
\nremote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick Python applications
\ninto accepting email addresses that should be denied. (CVE-2019-16056)<\/p>\n
It was discovered that the Python documentation XML-RPC server incorrectly
\nhandled certain fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute a
\ncross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2019-16935)<\/p>\n
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:<\/p>\n
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n Source: USN-4151-1: Python vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-4151-1: Python vulnerabilities python2.7, python3.5, python3.6, python3.7 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Python. Software Description python2.7 – An interactive high-level object-oriented language python3.7 – An interactive high-level object-oriented language python3.6 – An interactive high-level object-oriented language python3.5 – An interactive high-level object-oriented language Details It was discovered that Python incorrectly parsed certain email addresses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick Python applications into accepting email addresses that should be denied. (CVE-2019-16056) It was discovered that the Python documentation XML-RPC server incorrectly handled certain fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2019-16935) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-33270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33271,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33270\/revisions\/33271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}References<\/h2>\n
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