[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python-docs-2.7.3-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5892
2012-04-14 01:41:11
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Name        : python-docs
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.7.3
Release     : 1.fc17
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") from 2.7.2 to 2.7.3, bringing in security fixes, along with numerous other bugfixes.

See http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/
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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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