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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-11559
2014-09-26 08:16:27
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Name : python
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 2.7.5
Release : 14.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.

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Update Information:

Security fix for potential buffer overflow.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep 25 2014 Robert Kuska <rkuska@redhat.com> – 2.7.5-14
– potential buffer overflow
Resolves: rhbz#1146027
* 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
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1146026 – CVE-2014-7185 python: potential buffer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146026
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This update can be installed with the “yum” update program. Use
su -c ‘yum update python’ at the command line.
For more information, refer to “Managing Software with yum”,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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