RHSA-2021:4201: Moderate: babel security and bug fix update
First published: Tue Nov 09 2021(Updated: )
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.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2021-20095, CVE-2021-42771)</li> 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.<br>Additional Changes:<br>For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/babel | <2.5.1-7.el8 | 2.5.1-7.el8 |
| redhat/python3-babel | <2.5.1-7.el8 | 2.5.1-7.el8 |
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