maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 246984] lang/python36,37: Fix CVE-2020-8492 [PATCH]

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Bug 246984: lang/python36,37: Fix CVE-2020-8492 [PATCH]
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246984



--- Description ---
CVE-2020-8492 is open for quite a long time and hasen't been patched in a
release except for python 3.8. This pr fixes the CVE for Python 3.6 and 3.7 and
corrects/updates the wrong vuxml entries.

Please also see:
https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-basic-auth-regex.html

lang/python36:
  - Backport fix for CVE-2020-8492
  - Python Bug 39503: https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
  - Commit:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/69cdeeb93e0830004a495ed854022425b93b3f
3e

lang/python37:
  - Backport fix for CVE-2020-8492
  - Python Bug 39503: https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
  - Commit:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b57a73694e26e8b2391731b5ee0b1be5943738
8e

security/vuxml:
  - Update the entry for python36 to the corrected version
  - Correct the entry for python37 to the correct version, 3.7.7 does NOT have
the fix included. See:
https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-basic-auth-regex.html


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