-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-7800 2014-06-27 01:30:37 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python Product : Fedora 20 Version : 2.7.5 Release : 13.fc20 URL : http://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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2014-4616 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Jun 25 2014 Matej Stuchlik mstuchli@redhat.com - 2.7.5-13 - JSON module could read arbitrary process memory Resolves: rhbz#1112293 * Thu Jun 19 2014 Bohuslav Kabrda bkabrda@redhat.com - 2.7.5-12 - Fix test failures with SQLite 3.8.4 - Fix double close of subprocess pipes when child process fails Resolves: rhbz#1103450 * Wed Feb 19 2014 Bohuslav Kabrda bkabrda@redhat.com - 2.7.5-11 - Enable loading sqlite extensions. Resolves: rhbz#1066708 * Mon Feb 10 2014 Tomas Radej tradej@redhat.com - 2.7.5-10 - Fixed buffer overflow (upstream patch) Resolves: rhbz#1062375 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1112285 - CVE-2014-4616 python: missing boundary check in JSON module https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112285 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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