-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2019-bed9afe622 2019-03-21 14:39:53.476473 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : PyYAML Product : Fedora 29 Version : 5.1 Release : 1.fc29 URL : https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml Summary : YAML parser and emitter for Python Description : YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages. PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python.
PyYAML features a complete YAML 1.1 parser, Unicode support, pickle support, capable extension API, and sensible error messages. PyYAML supports standard YAML tags and provides Python-specific tags that allow to represent an arbitrary Python object.
PyYAML is applicable for a broad range of tasks from complex configuration files to object serialization and persistence.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
New upstream release 5.1 (rhbz#1688414) Fixes CVE-2017-18342 (rhbz#1595744) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Mar 13 2019 John Eckersberg eck@redhat.com - 5.1-1 - New upstream release 5.1 (rhbz#1688414) - Fixes CVE-2017-18342 (rhbz#1595744) * Fri Mar 8 2019 John Eckersberg eck@redhat.com - 5.1-0.1.b6 - New upstream beta release 5.1b6 (rhbz#1686643) * Thu Feb 28 2019 John Eckersberg eck@redhat.com - 5.1-0.1.b3 - New upstream beta release 5.1b3 (rhbz#1683884) * Mon Feb 25 2019 John Eckersberg eck@redhat.com - 5.1-0.1.b1 - New upstream beta release 5.1b1 (rhbz#1680457) - Typo fix (rhbz#1680463) * Thu Jan 31 2019 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 4.2-0.2.b4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1688414 - PyYAML-5.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1688414 [ 2 ] Bug #1595744 - CVE-2017-18342 PyYAML: yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595744 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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