rhsa-2021_4201
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2021-11-09 18:35
Modified
2024-11-13 23:33
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: babel security and bug fix update

Notes

Topic
An update for babel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details
Babel provides tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs, and a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc. Security Fix(es): * python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2021-20095, CVE-2021-42771) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Terms of Use
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