Fedora 20: FEDORA-2015-6010 Critical: Python DoS Issues Resolved

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.

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