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Medium RLSA-2022:1763 1 CVE

Moderate: python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 security update

Published May 10, 2022 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

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.

Security Fix(es):

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

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 Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 42

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 Cython 0:0.29.21-5.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 mod_wsgi 0:4.7.1-4.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 numpy 0:1.19.4-3.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 pybind11 0:2.7.1-1.module+el8.6.0+795+de4edbcc
Rocky Linux · 8 pytest 0:6.0.2-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-attrs 0:20.3.0-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-cffi 0:1.14.3-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-chardet 0:3.0.4-19.module+el8.4.0+570+c2eaf144
Rocky Linux · 8 python-cryptography 0:3.3.1-2.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 python-cryptography 0:3.3.1-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-idna 0:2.10-3.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-iniconfig 0:1.1.1-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-lxml 0:4.6.5-1.module+el8.6.0+795+de4edbcc
Rocky Linux · 8 python-more-itertools 0:8.5.0-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-packaging 0:20.4-4.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pluggy 0:0.13.1-3.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-ply 0:3.11-10.module+el8.4.0+570+c2eaf144
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psutil 0:5.8.0-4.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psutil 0:5.8.0-4.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psycopg2 0:2.8.6-2.module+el8.6.0+795+de4edbcc
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psycopg2 0:2.8.6-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-psycopg2 0:2.8.6-2.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 python-py 0:1.10.0-1.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pycparser 0:2.20-3.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-PyMySQL 0:0.10.1-2.module+el8.4.0+597+ddf0ddea
Rocky Linux · 8 python-PyMySQL 0:0.10.1-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pysocks 0:1.7.1-4.module+el8.4.0+570+c2eaf144
Rocky Linux · 8 python-requests 0:2.25.0-2.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-toml 0:0.10.1-5.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-urllib3 0:1.25.10-4.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 python-wcwidth 0:0.2.5-3.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python-wheel 1:0.35.1-4.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 python39 0:3.9.7-1.module+el8.6.0+795+de4edbcc
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-pip 0:20.2.4-7.module+el8.7.0+1064+ad564229
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-pip 0:20.2.4-7.module+el8.6.0+795+de4edbcc
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-pyparsing 0:2.4.7-5.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-setuptools 0:50.3.2-4.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 python3x-six 0:1.15.0-3.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 PyYAML 0:5.4.1-1.module+el8.5.0+672+ab6eb015
Rocky Linux · 8 PyYAML 0:5.4.1-1.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898
Rocky Linux · 8 scipy 0:1.5.4-3.module+el8.5.0+673+10283621
Rocky Linux · 8 scipy 0:1.5.4-3.module+el8.4.0+574+843c4898

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.2

    HTML Cleaner allows crafted and SVG embedded scripts to pass through

    lxml is a library for processing XML and HTML in the Python language. Prior to version 4.6.5, the HTML Cleaner in lxml.html lets certain crafted script content pass through, as well as script content in SVG files embedded using data URIs. Users that employ th…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003102
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006790
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2032569