Fedora 20: python Security Update
Summary
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes
modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and
dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and
libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk,
Mac and MFC).
Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++.
Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need
a programmable interface.
Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs
package.
This package provides the "python" executable; most of the actual
implementation is within the "python-libs" package.
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2013-1752
multiple unbound readline() DoS flaws in python stdlib
following fixes (which all relates to this CVE) are in this patch: * ftplib: Limit amount of data read by limiting the call to readline(). #16038 * imaplib: limit line length in imaplib readline calls. #16039 * nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. #16040 * poplib: limit maximum line length that we read from the network #16041 * smtplib: limit amount read from the network #16042
Change Log
* Fri Apr 10 2015 Robert Kuska
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1046174 - CVE-2013-1752 python: multiple unbound readline() DoS flaws in python stdlib https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046174
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
