Important: rh-python35-python-jinja2 security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-python35-python-jinja2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for rh-python35-python-jinja2 is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Description

The rh-python35-python-jinja2 package contains Jinja2, a template engine written in pure Python. Jinja2 provides a Django inspired non-XML syntax but supports inline expressions and an optional sandboxed environment.

Security Fix(es):

• python-jinja2: Sandbox escape due to information disclosure via str.format (CVE-2016-10745)
  
• python-jinja2: str.format_map allows sandbox escape (CVE-2019-10906)
  

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

For the update to take effect, all applications using Jinja2 must be restarted.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1698345 - CVE-2016-10745 python-jinja2: Sandbox escape due to information disclosure via str.format
• BZ - 1698839 - CVE-2019-10906 python-jinja2: str.format_map allows sandbox escape

CVEs

• CVE-2016-10745
• CVE-2019-10906

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important