[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-2.7.5-4.fc19

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-15146
2013-08-22 22:35:08
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Name        : python
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.7.5
Release     : 4.fc19
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.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2013-4238
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 19 2013 Matej Stuchlik <mstuchli at redhat.com> - 2.7.5-4
- Added fix for CVE-2013-4238 (rhbz#998430)
* Mon Jul  8 2013 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 2.7.5-3
- Fix build with libffi containing multilib wrapper for ffi.h (rhbz#979696).
* Mon Jul  8 2013 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> - 2.7.5-2
- Obsolete PyXML as requested in rhbz#981137.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #996381 - CVE-2013-4238 python: hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL module
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996381
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