Matej Cepl
c462da06b7
- python -m http.server no longer allows terminal
control characters sent within a garbage request to be
printed to the stderr server log.
This is done by changing the http.server
BaseHTTPRequestHandler .log_message method to replace control
characters with a \xHH hex escape before printing.
- Avoid publishing list of active per-interpreter
audit hooks via the gc module
- The IDNA codec decoder used on DNS hostnames by
socket or asyncio related name resolution functions no
longer involves a quadratic algorithm. This prevents a
potential CPU denial of service if an out-of-spec excessive
length hostname involving bidirectional characters were
decoded. Some protocols such as urllib http 3xx redirects
potentially allow for an attacker to supply such a
name (CVE-2022-45061).
- Update bundled libexpat to 2.5.0
- Port XKCP’s fix for the buffer overflows in SHA-3
(CVE-2022-37454).
- The deprecated mailcap module now refuses to inject
unsafe text (filenames, MIME types, parameters) into shell
commands. Instead of using such text, it will warn and act
as if a match was not found (or for test commands, as if the
test failed).
- Removed upstream patches:
- CVE-2022-37454-sha3-buffer-overflow.patch
- CVE-2022-45061-DoS-by-IDNA-decode.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:python:Factory/python38?expand=0&rev=115
Python 3 in SUSE
==============
* Subpackages *
Python 3 is split into several subpackages, based on external dependencies.
The main package 'python3' has soft dependencies on all subpackages needed to
assemble the standard library; however, these might not all be installed by default.
If you attempt to import a module that is currently not installed, an ImportError is thrown,
with instructions to install the missing subpackage. Installing the subpackage might result
in installing libraries that the subpackage requires to function.
* ensurepip *
The 'ensurepip' module from Python 3 standard library (PEP 453) is supposed to deploy
a bundled copy of the pip installer. This makes no sense in a managed distribution like SUSE.
Instead, you need to install package 'python3-pip'. Usually this will be installed automatically
with 'python3'.
Using 'ensurepip' when pip is not installed will result in an ImportError with instructions
to install 'python3-pip'.
* Documentation *
You can find documentation in seprarate packages: python3-doc and
python3-doc-pdf. These contan following documents:
Tutorial, What's New in Python, Global Module Index, Library Reference,
Macintosh Module Reference, Installing Python Modules, Distributing Python
Modules, Language Reference, Extending and Embedding, Python/C API,
Documenting Python
The python3-doc package constains many text files from source tarball.
* Interactive mode *
Interactive mode is by default enhanced with of history and command completion.
If you don't like these features, you can unset the PYTHONSTARTUP variable
in your .profile or disable it system wide in /etc/profile.d/python.sh.