{"schema_version":"1.7.3","id":"SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1","published":"2018-10-16T09:06:19Z","modified":"2026-02-04T04:15:27.297129Z","related":["CVE-2018-14647"],"upstream":["CVE-2018-14647"],"summary":"Security update for python","details":"This update for python fixes the following issue:\n\n- CVE-2018-14647: Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise\n  Expat's hash salt during initialization. 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