This update for python-base fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-1061: Fixed DoS via regular expression backtracking in difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method in difflib . - CVE-2018-1060: Fixed DoS via regular expression catastrophic backtracking in apop method in pop3lib . - CVE-2016-5636: Fixed heap overflow in zipimporter module Bug fixes: - bsc#1086001: python tarfile uses random order.