Advisories » MGASA-2014-0085

Updated python & python3 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Publication date: 19 Feb 2014
Modification date: 19 Feb 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-1912 , CVE-2013-1752

Description

Updated python and python3 packages fix security vulnerabilities:

A vulnerability was reported in Python's socket module, due to a boundary
error within the sock_recvfrom_into() function, which could be exploited to
cause a buffer overflow.  This could be used to crash a Python application
that uses the socket.recvfrom_info() function or, possibly, execute arbitrary
code with the permissions of the user running vulnerable Python code
(CVE-2014-1912).

This updates the python package to version 2.7.6, which fixes several other
bugs, including denial of service flaws due to unbound readline() calls in
the ftplib and nntplib modules (CVE-2013-1752).

The python3 package has been patched to fix the CVE-2014-1912 issue.
                

References

• http://bugs.python.org/issue20246
• http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/99d03261c1ba/Misc/NEWS
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128243.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128361.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046174
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/23/10
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12127
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12772
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1912
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1752

SRPMS

3/core

• python-2.7.6-1.mga3
• python3-3.3.0-4.6.mga3

4/core

• python-2.7.6-1.mga4
• python3-3.3.2-13.1.mga4