[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: python-rencode-1.0.6-17.fc34
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-02340931ec
2022-02-15 01:16:36.629164
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Name : python-rencode
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 1.0.6
Release : 17.fc34
URL : https://github.com/aresch/rencode
Summary : Web safe object pickling/unpickling
Description :
The rencode module is a modified version of bencode from the
BitTorrent project. For complex, heterogeneous data structures with
many small elements, r-encodings take up significantly less space than
b-encodings.
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Update Information:
add upstream commits with CVE-2021-40839 fix , which is the same bug issue of
"3-byte packet DoS"
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jan 25 2022 S��rgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> - 1.0.6-17
- Fix CVE-2021-40839
* Fri Jan 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.6-16
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jul 23 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.6-15
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jun 4 2021 Python Maint <python-maint(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.6-14
- Rebuilt for Python 3.10
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2003753 - python-rencode: rencode 3-byte packet DoS [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003753
[ 2 ] Bug #2004109 - CVE-2021-40839 python-rencode: an infinite loop in typecode
decoding allowing a remote DoS [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004109
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