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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-6003
2015-04-11 04:34:49
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Name        : python
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.7.8
Release     : 8.fc21
URL         : https://www.python.org/
Summary     : An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
Description :
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.

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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:
* poplib: limit maximum line length that we read from the network #16041
* smtplib: limit amount read from the network #16042

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 10 2015 Robert Kuska  - 2.7.8-8
- Fix CVE-2013-1752 multiple unbound readline() DoS flaws in python stdlib
Resolves: rhbz#1159200
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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
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