MGASA-2014-0085
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Summary: Updated python & python3 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Details: Updated python and python3 packages fix security vulnerabilities: A vulnerability was reported in Python's socket module, due to a boundary error within the sock_recvfrom_into() function, which could be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. This could be used to crash a Python application that uses the socket.recvfrom_info() function or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running vulnerable Python code (CVE-2014-1912). This updates the python package to version 2.7.6, which fixes several other bugs, including denial of service flaws due to unbound readline() calls in the ftplib and nntplib modules (CVE-2013-1752). The python3 package has been patched to fix the CVE-2014-1912 issue.
References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0085.html, http://bugs.python.org/issue20246, http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/99d03261c1ba/Misc/NEWS, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128243.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128361.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046174, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/23/10, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12127, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12772
Affected packages
Package
Name: python
Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python?arch=source&distro=mageia-3
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
