[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: python-setuptools-0.6.49-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23140
2013-12-11 01:13:36
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Name        : python-setuptools
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.6.49
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
Summary     : Easily build and distribute Python packages
Description :
Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow
you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that
have dependencies on other packages.

This package contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to
execute the software that requires pkg_resources.py.

This package contains the distribute fork of setuptools.

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Update Information:

Fix for  CVE-2013-2215: Weak integrity checks when loading resources extracted from zipped eggs
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec  9 2013 Toshio Kuratomi <toshio at fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.49-1
- Upstream update to fix CVE-2013-2215
* Thu Apr 11 2013 Toshio Kuratomi <toshio at fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.36-1
- Update to upstream 0.6.36.  Many bugfixes
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.28-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #961332 - python-setuptools: Weak integrity checks when loading resources extracted from zipped eggs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961332
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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