Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-6003 Moderate: Python DoS Flaws Mitigation

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