Slackware: 2009-456-02 Critical: Python Library Memory Issue

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.2.6-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to php-5.2.6. This version of PHP contains many fixes and enhancements. Some of the fixes are security related, and the PHP release announcement provides this list: * Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin. * Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz. * Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh. * Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. * Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser. * Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6 When last checked, CVE-2008-0599 was not yet open. However, additional information should become available at this URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0599 The list reproduced above, as well as