[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-pip-1.3.1-4.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-13216
2013-07-18 02:32:53
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Name        : python-pip
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.3.1
Release     : 4.fc19
URL         : http://www.pip-installer.org
Summary     : A tool for installing and managing Python packages
Description :
Pip is a replacement for `easy_install
<http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall>`_.  It uses mostly the
same techniques for finding packages, so packages that were made
easy_installable should be pip-installable as well.

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Update Information:

Fix potential DOS with specially crafted malicious SSL certs.
Backing out rename of pip binary to fix #958377 and updating package summary to match upstream's description.
Backing out rename of pip binary to fix #958377 and updating package summary to match upstream's description.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 16 2013 Toshio Kuratomi <toshio at fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.1-4
- Fix for CVE 2013-2099
* Thu May 23 2013 Tim Flink <tflink at fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.1-3
- undo python2 executable rename to python-pip. fixes #958377
- fix summary to match upstream
* Mon May  6 2013 Kevin Kofler <Kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org> - 1.3.1-2
- Fix main package Summary, it's for Python 2, not 3 (#877401)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #963260 - CVE-2013-2098 CVE-2013-2099 python: ssl.match_hostname() DoS via certificates with specially crafted hostname wildcard patterns
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963260
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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