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python - An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

Website: http://www.python.org/
License: PSF - see LICENSE
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes
modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and
dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and
libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk,
Mac and MFC).

Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++.
Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need
a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard
Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget
set for Tk and RPM.

Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs
package.

Packages

python-2.3.4-14.10.el4.x86_64 [4.9 MiB] Changelog by David Malcolm (2011-04-14):
- add patch adapted from upstream (patch 208) to add support for building
against system expat; add --with-system-expat to "configure" invocation; remove
embedded copy of expat 1.95.7 from the source tree during "prep"
- ensure pyexpat.so gets built by explicitly listing all C modules in the
payload in %files, rather than using dynfiles
Related: CVE-2009-3720
- fixes for other security bugs (patches 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
Resolves: CVE-2010-3493
Resolves: CVE-2011-1015
Resolves: CVE-2011-1521
Resolves: CVE-2010-1634
Resolves: CVE-2010-2089
python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64 [5.0 MiB] Changelog by David Malcolm (2011-01-11):
- rgbimg module integer overflows (CVE-2010-1450)
Resolves: rhbz#650936
python-2.3.4-14.7.el4_8.2.x86_64 [5.0 MiB] Changelog by Jan iankko Lieskovsky (2009-07-16):
- Fix all of the low priority security bugs:
- Resolves: rhbz#486329
- Multiple integer overflows in python core (CVE-2008-2315)
- Resolves: 455008 
- PyString_FromStringAndSize does not check for negative size values (CVE-2008-1887)
- Resolves: 443810
- Multiple integer overflows discovered by Google (CVE-2008-3143)
- Resolves: 455013 
- Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing (CVE-2008-3142)
- Resolves: 454990
- Potential integer underflow and overflow in the PyOS_vsnprintf C API function (CVE-2008-3144)
- Resolves: 455018
- imageop module multiple integer overflows (CVE-2008-4864)
- Resolves: 469656
- stringobject, unicodeobject integer overflows (CVE-2008-5031)
- Resolves: 470915
- integer signedness error in the zlib extension module (CVE-2008-1721)
- Resolves: 442005
- imageop module integer overflows (CVE-2008-1679)
- CVE-2008-1679 patch is part of python-2.3.4-CVE-2008-4864-imageop-{1,2}.patch
- Resolves: 441306
python-2.3.4-14.4.el4.1.x86_64 [5.0 MiB] Changelog by James Antill (2007-11-20):
- Fix possible integer overflow in image ops
- Fix off by one strxfrm malloc
- Fix pypcre bugs
- Resolves: rhbz#392041

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