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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-44643e8bcb
2019-03-29 19:07:28.732532
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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.
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Update Information:
New upstream release 5.1 (rhbz#1688414) Fixes CVE-2017-18342 (rhbz#1595744)
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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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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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