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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-2e5a17c4cc Moderate: Python Heap Overflow Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey January 2, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 27's latest security update addresses a critical vulnerability in Python 3.3, CVE-2017-1000158. Users are urged to apply patches for system security
Fix for CVE-2017-1000158

Summary

Python 3.3 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 3.3, see other distributions

that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software Collections.

Fix for CVE-2017-1000158

[ 1 ] Bug #1519605 - CVE-2017-1000158 python33: python: Integer overflow in PyString_DecodeEscape results in heap-base buffer overflow [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519605

su -c 'dnf upgrade python33' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 3.3.7
Release: 2.fc27
Summary: Version 3.3 of the Python programming language

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