[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python3-3.3.2-9.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2418
2014-02-12 14:04:31
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Name        : python3
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 3.3.2
Release     : 9.fc20
URL         : http://www.python.org/
Summary     : Version 3 of the Python programming language aka Python 3000
Description :
Python 3 is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x
line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially
how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed
considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed.

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Update Information:

Buffer overflow fix.

See upstream issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue20246
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 10 2014 Tomas Radej <tradej at redhat.com> - 3.3.2-9
- Fixed buffer overflow (upstream patch)
Resolves: rhbz#1062374
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1062370 - CVE-2014-1912 python: buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062370
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