Advisories ยป MGASA-2021-0193

Updated python3 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Apr 2021
Modification date: 18 Apr 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-3426

Description

There's a flaw in Python 3's pydoc. A local or adjacent attacker who discovers
or is able to convince another local or adjacent user to start a pydoc server
could access the server and use it to disclose sensitive information belonging
to the other user that they would not normally be able to access. The highest
risk of this flaw is to data confidentiality (CVE-2021-3426).
                

References

SRPMS

8/core

7/core