[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python3-3.2.3-5.fc17
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Mon May 7 04:17:07 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5785
2012-04-13 06:07:19
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Name : python3
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 3.2.3
Release : 5.fc17
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 python3 from 3.2.2 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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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.
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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