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Adam Duskett fbe6c566a9 package/python3: security bump to version 3.8.3
Fixes the following security issues:

- bpo-40121: Fixes audit events raised on creating a new socket

- bpo-38576: Disallow control characters in hostnames in http.client,
  addressing CVE-2019-18348.  Such potentially malicious header injection
  URLs now cause a InvalidURL to be raised.

- bpo-39503: CVE-2020-8492: The AbstractBasicAuthHandler class of the
  urllib.request module uses an inefficient regular expression which can be
  exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service.  Fix the regex to
  prevent the catastrophic backtracking.  Vulnerability reported by Ben
  Caller and Matt Schwager.

For more details, see the changelog:
https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.3/whatsnew/changelog.html#security

Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5ff01eb31f)
[Peter: mention security impact]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2020-07-15 23:07:40 +02:00
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