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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-bed9afe622
2019-03-21 14:39:53.476473
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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.
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Update Information:
New upstream release 5.1 (rhbz#1688414) Fixes CVE-2017-18342 (rhbz#1595744)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Mar 13 2019 John Eckersberg <eck(a)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(a)redhat.com> - 5.1-0.1.b6
- New upstream beta release 5.1b6 (rhbz#1686643)
* Thu Feb 28 2019 John Eckersberg <eck(a)redhat.com> - 5.1-0.1.b3
- New upstream beta release 5.1b3 (rhbz#1683884)
* Mon Feb 25 2019 John Eckersberg <eck(a)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(a)fedoraproject.org> -
4.2-0.2.b4
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
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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-bed9afe622' 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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