Recommended update for python3-M2Crypto

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:0796-1
Release Date: 2025-03-06T12:28:18Z
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2020-25657 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2020-25657 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP6
  • openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python3-M2Crypto fixes the following issues:

  • Fix spelling of BSD-2-Clause license.
  • Update to 0.44.0:
  • The real license is BSD 2-Clause, not MIT.
  • Remove python-M2Crypto.keyring, because PyPI broke GPG support
  • Build for modern python stack on SLE/Leap
  • require setuptools
  • Make tests running again.
  • Remove unnecessary fdupes call
  • Add python-typing as a dependency
  • SLE12 requires swig3 for a successful build, too

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.6
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-796=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-796=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP6
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-796=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    • python3-M2Crypto-debuginfo-0.44.0-150600.19.3.1
    • python3-M2Crypto-0.44.0-150600.19.3.1
  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)
    • python3-M2Crypto-doc-0.44.0-150600.19.3.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • python3-M2Crypto-debuginfo-0.44.0-150600.19.3.1
    • python3-M2Crypto-0.44.0-150600.19.3.1

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