Security update for python
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2026:2387-1 |
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| Release Date: | 2026-06-12T13:57:54Z |
| Rating: | important |
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An update that solves six vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update for python fixes the following issues
- CVE-2026-1703: files may be extracted outside the installation directory when installing and extracting maliciously crafted wheel archives (bsc#1257599).
- CVE-2026-3219: pip doesn't reject concatenated ZIP (bsc#1262429).
- CVE-2026-4786: Incomplete mitigation of %action expansion for command injection to webbrowser.open() (bsc#1262319).
- CVE-2026-6019: BaseCookie.js_output() does not neutralize embedded characters (bsc#1262654).
- CVE-2026-6100: arbitrary code execution or information disclosure via use-after-free in decompression modules (bsc#1262098).
- CVE-2026-6357: pip self-update functionality can import newly installed modules after wheel installation (bsc#1263442).
Changes for python:
- For SLE-12-SP1 use vendored libffi (bsc#1261652). We have libffi4.so from SP3 only.
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:
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SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2026-2387=1
Package List:
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SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
- python-gdbm-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-gdbm-debuginfo-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- libpython2_7-1_0-debuginfo-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- libpython2_7-1_0-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-curses-debuginfo-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-debugsource-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-base-debuginfo-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-xml-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-base-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-xml-debuginfo-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-base-debugsource-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-curses-2.7.18-150000.120.1
- python-debuginfo-2.7.18-150000.120.1
References:
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1703.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3219.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4786.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6019.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6100.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6357.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257599
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261652
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262098
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262319
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262429
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262654
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263442