[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: python3-3.2.3-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5916
2012-04-14 22:42:20
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Name        : python3
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 3.2.3
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://www.python.org/
Summary     : Version 3 of the Python programming language aka Python 3000
Description :
Python 3 is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x
line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially
how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed
considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed.

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Update Information:

Rebase of Python 3 ("python3") from 3.2 to 3.2.3 bringing in security fixes, along with other bugfixes.

See http://python.org/download/releases/3.2.3/
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 12 2012 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 3.2.3-1
- 3.2.3; refresh patch 6 (no static lib), patch 102 (lib64) and patch 129
(test_subprocess); fix test_gdb (patches 152 and 153); regenerate the autotool
intermediates patch (patch 300); run unit tests verbosely; add support for
skipping unit tests in rpmbuild (patch 132), use it to skip a specific urllib
test (patch 154)
* Sun Oct  9 2011 Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> - 3.2-3
- don't run test_openpty and test_pty in %check
- exclude failing tests on ARM
* Tue Apr 19 2011 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 3.2-2
- fix the libpython.stp systemtap tapset (rhbz#697730)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #750555 - CVE-2012-1150 python: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750555
  [ 2 ] Bug #789790 - CVE-2012-0845 python: SimpleXMLRPCServer CPU usage DoS via malformed XML-RPC request
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789790
  [ 3 ] Bug #812068 - python: SSL CBC IV vulnerability (CVE-2011-3389, BEAST)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812068
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update python3' at the command line.
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