[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: python-docs-2.7.3-1.fc16
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Sun May 6 01:26:43 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5924
2012-04-14 22:42:38
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Name : python-docs
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 2.7.3
Release : 1.fc16
URL : http://www.python.org/
Summary : Documentation for the Python programming language
Description :
The python-docs package contains documentation on the Python
programming language and interpreter.
Install the python-docs package if you'd like to use the documentation
for the Python language.
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Update Information:
Rebase of Python 2 ("python" and "python-docs") from 2.7.2 to 2.7.3 bringing in security fixes, along with other bugfixes.
See http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Apr 13 2012 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.7.3-1
- 2.7.3
* Thu Aug 11 2011 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.7.2-2
- fix broken link to "Global Module Index", and add a %check, verifying the
absence of broken links (rhbz#670493)
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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 python-docs' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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/keys
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