ELSA-2013-1582

ELSA-2013-1582 - python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type:	SECURITY
Severity:	MODERATE
Release Date:	2013-11-26

Description

[2.6.6-51]
- Fixed memory leak in _ssl._get_peer_alt_names
Resolves: rhbz#1002983

[2.6.6-50]
- Added fix for CVE-2013-4238
Resolves: rhbz#998784

[2.6.6-49]
- Fix shebangs in several files in python-tools subpackage
Resolves: rhbz#521898

[2.6.6-48]
- Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
Resolves: rhbz#841937

[2.6.6-47]
- Urlparse now parses query and fragment of urls for any scheme.
Resolves: rhbz#978129

[2.6.6-46]
- Add wrapper for select.select to restart a system call
Resolves: rhbz#948025

[2.6.6-45]
- Add try-except to catch OSError in WatchedFileHandler
Resolves: rhbz#919163

[2.6.6-44]
- Fix urandom to throw proper exception
Resolves: rhbz#893034

[2.6.6-43]
- Backport of collections.OrderedDict from Python 2.7
Resolves: rhbz#929258

[2.6.6-42]
- Add an explicit RPATH to _elementtree.so pointing at the directory
containing system expat
Resolves: rhbz#962779

[2.6.6-41]
- Don't let failed incoming SSL connection stay open forever
Resolves: rhbz#960168

[2.6.6-40]
- Fix Python not reading Alternative Subject Names from some SSL
certificates
Resolves: rhbz#928390

[2.6.6-39]
- Remove BOM insertion code from SysLogHandler that causes messages to be
treated as EMERG level
Resolves: rhbz#845802

[2.6.6-38]
- move most of the payload of the core package to the libs subpackage, given
that the libs aren't meaningfully usable without the standard libraries
- preserve timestamps when fixing shebangs (patch 158) and when installing,
to minimize .pyc/.pyo differences across architectures (due to the embedded
mtime in .pyc/.pyo headers)
- fix multilib issue in /usr/bin/modulator and /usr/bin/pynche
Related: rhbz#958256

Related CVEs

CVE-2013-4238

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	MD5sum	Superseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 6 (i386)	python-2.6.6-51.el6.src.rpm	7ed70a8db48695bf2299f3ac9bd2256f	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm	72e0ca85721fb1643f0a768538b4e66a	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-devel-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm	79561e3ac58589c742170cff9f4c1a4a	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-libs-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm	7abd23263300f0e4bee925014568ae6c	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-test-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm	d482ce18e46d1f4706b9a4af447fbda4	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-tools-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm	9780ee8bc422984f79d00804912ed092	ELSA-2019-4877
	tkinter-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm	94e30bbb24bf51f2bf3d7c8f32d34c5e	ELSA-2019-4877
Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64)	python-2.6.6-51.el6.src.rpm	7ed70a8db48695bf2299f3ac9bd2256f	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm	b968dab8612263ae38ea86962b6f6831	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-devel-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm	31fa892eff2ccb2a49c64b36ec81b7a1	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-libs-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm	305dc9b515bc22dac0d295039bcf3168	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-test-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm	2eab5af4e5592a480a74026468d15c43	ELSA-2019-4877
	python-tools-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm	de7c11b218c9e2c39ad4d19d4549aff2	ELSA-2019-4877
	tkinter-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm	52f4e7daec7b2188f55324c160382935	ELSA-2019-4877

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