Fedora 26 Urgent Notice: FEDORA-2017-2d441a1d98 Python 2.6 Security Risk

Python 2.6 package for developers.

This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older

version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run

your applications with Python 2.6, see other distributions

that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL 6.

Fix for CVE-2017-1000158

[ 1 ] Bug #1519602 - CVE-2017-1000158 python26: python: Integer overflow in PyString_DecodeEscape results in heap-base buffer overflow [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519602

su -c 'dnf upgrade python26' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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