Security update for python-requests

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20255-1
Release Date: 2025-03-28T13:56:40Z
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.1

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-requests fixes the following issues:

  • Add patch to inject the default CA bundles if they are not specified. (bsc#1226321, bsc#1231500)

  • Remove Requires on python-py.

  • update to 2.32.3:

  • Fixed bug breaking the ability to specify custom SSLContexts in sub-classes of HTTPAdapter.

  • Fixed issue where Requests started failing to run on Python versions compiled without the ssl module.

  • To provide a more stable migration for custom HTTPAdapters impacted by the CVE changes in 2.32.0, we've renamed _get_connection to a new public API, get_connection_with_tls_context. Existing custom HTTPAdapters will need to migrate their code to use this new API. get_connection is

  • Fixed an issue where setting verify=False on the first request from a Session will cause subsequent requests to the same origin to also ignore cert verification,
  • verify=True now reuses a global SSLContext which should improve request time
  • Requests now supports optional use of character detection (chardet or charset_normalizer) when repackaged or vendored. This enables pip and other projects to minimize their

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:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-1=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (noarch)
    • python311-requests-2.32.3-slfo.1.1_2.1

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