MGASA-2015-0091

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    MGASA-2015-0091

    Published: 5 Mar 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-9365

    Summary: Updated python packages fix CVE-2014-9365

    Details: Updated python packages fix security vulnerability: When Python's standard library HTTP clients (httplib, urllib, urllib2, xmlrpclib) are used to access resources with HTTPS, by default the certificate is not checked against any trust store, nor is the hostname in the certificate checked against the requested host. It was possible to configure a trust root to be checked against, however there were no faculties for hostname checking (CVE-2014-9365). Note that this issue also affects python3, and is fixed upstream in version 3.4.3, but the fix was considered too intrusive to backport to Python3 3.3.x. No update for the python3 package for this issue is planned at this time.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0091.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14780, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173041

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.9-1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High