-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2019-44643e8bcb 2019-03-29 19:07:28.732532 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : PyYAML Product : Fedora 30 Version : 5.1 Release : 1.fc30 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-44643e8bcb' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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