This update for python to version 2.7.17 fixes the following issues:
Syncing with lots of upstream bug fixes and security fixes.
Bug fixes:
- CVE-2019-9674: Improved the documentation to reflect the dangers of zip-bombs (bsc#1162825). - CVE-2019-18348: Fixed a CRLF injection via the host part of the url passed to urlopen(). Now an InvalidURL exception is raised (bsc#1155094). - CVE-2020-8492: Fixed a regular expression in urllib that was prone to denial of service via HTTP (bsc#1162367). - Fixed mismatches between libpython and python-base versions (bsc#1162224). - Fixed segfault in libpython2.7.so.1 (bsc#1073748). - Unified packages among openSUSE:Factory and SLE versions (bsc#1159035). - Added idle.desktop and idle.appdata.xml to provide IDLE in menus (bsc#1153830). - Excluded tsl_check files from python-base to prevent file conflict with python-strict-tls-checks package (bsc#945401). - Changed the name of idle3 icons to idle3.png to avoid collision with Python 2 version (bsc#1165894).
Additionally a new 'shared-python-startup' package is provided containing startup files.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4