Oracle Errata SystemOracle Linux5.32021-09-09T12:47:47
ELSA-2011-0554: python security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE)
Oracle Linux 6
python:
[2.6.6-20]
Resolves: CVE-2010-3493
[2.6.6-19]
Resolves: CVE-2011-1015
[2.6.6-18]
Resolves: CVE-2011-1521
[2.6.6-17]
- recompile against systemtap 1.4
Related: rhbz#569695
[2.6.6-16]
- recompile against systemtap 1.4
Related: rhbz#569695
[2.6.6-15]
- fix race condition that sometimes breaks the build with parallel make
Resolves: rhbz#690315
[2.6.6-14]
- backport pre-canned ways of salting a password to the 'crypt' module
Resolves: rhbz#681878
[2.6.6-13]
- move lib2to3/tests to the python-test subpackage
Related: rhbz#625395
[2.6.6-12]
- fix a new test in 2.6.6 that was failing on 64-bit big-endian architectures
Resolves: rhbz#677392
[2.6.6-11]
- fix incompatibility between 2.6.6 and our non-standard M2Crypto.SSL.SSLTimeoutError
Resolves: rhbz#681811
[2.6.6-10]
- add workaround for bug in rhythmbox-0.12 exposed by python 2.6.6
Resolves: rhbz#684991
[2.6.6-9]
- prevent tracebacks for the 'py-bt' gdb command on x86_64
Resolves: rhbz#639392
[2.6.6-8]
- fix a regression in 2.6.6 relative to 2.6.5 in urllib2
Resolves: rhbz#669847
[2.6.6-7]
- add an optional 'timeout' argument to the subprocess module (patch 131)
Resolves: rhbz#567229
[2.6.6-6]
- prevent _sqlite3.so being built with a redundant RPATH of _libdir (patch 130)
- remove DOS batch file 'idle.bat'
- remove shebang lines from .py files that aren't executable, and remove
executability from .py files that don't have a shebang line
Related: rhbz#634944
- add 'Obsoletes: python-ssl' to core package, as 2.6 contains the ssl module
Resolves: rhbz#529274
[2.6.6-5]
- allow the 'no_proxy' environment variable to override 'ftp_proxy' in
urllib2 (patch 128)
Resolves: rhbz#637895
- make garbage-collection assertion failures more informative (patch 129)
Resolves: rhbz#614680
[2.6.6-4]
- backport subprocess fixes to use the 'poll' system call, rather than 'select'
Resolves: rhbz#650588
[2.6.6-3]
- use an ephemeral port for IDLE, enabling multiple instances to be run
Resolves: rhbz#639222
- add systemtap static markers, tapsets, and example scripts
Resolves: rhbz#569695
[2.6.6-2]
- fix dbm.release on ppc64/s390x
Resolves: rhbz#626756
- fix missing lib2to3 test files
Resolves: rhbz#625395
- fix test.test_commands SELinux incompatibility
Resolves: rhbz#625393
- make 'pydoc -k' more robust in the face of broken modules
Resolves: rhbz#603073
[2.6.6-1]
- rebase to 2.6.6: (which contains the big whitespace cleanup of r81031)
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/
- fixup patch 102, patch 11, patch 52, patch 110
- drop upstreamed patches: patch 113 (CVE-2010-1634), patch 114
(CVE-2010-2089), patch 115 (CVE-2008-5983), patch 116 (rhbz598564),
patch 118 (rhbz540518)
- add fix for upstream bug in test_posix.py introduced in 2.6.6 (patch 120)
Resolves: rhbz#627301
python-docs:
[2.6.6-2]
- rebuild
[2.6.6-1]
- rebase to 2.6.6 to track the main python package
Related: rhbz#627301
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