Synopsis:	Low: python security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2011-02-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-4134 CVE-2010-1449 CVE-2010-1450

Multiple flaws were found in the Python rgbimg module. If an application
written in Python was using the rgbimg module and loaded a
specially-crafted SGI image file, it could cause the application to 
crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the 
user running the application. (CVE-2009-4134, CVE-2010-1449, CVE-2010-1450)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* Python 2.3.4's time.strptime() function did not correctly handle the 
"%W" week number format string. This update backports the _strptime
implementation from Python 2.3.6, fixing this issue. (BZ#436001)

* Python 2.3.4's socket.htons() function returned 
partially-uninitialized data on IBM System z, generally leading to 
incorrect results. (BZ#513341)

* Python 2.3.4's pwd.getpwuid() and grp.getgrgid() functions did not
support the full range of user and group IDs on 64-bit architectures,
leading to "OverflowError" exceptions for large input values. This 
update adds support for the full range of user and group IDs on 64-bit
architectures. (BZ#497540)

SL 4.x

     SRPMS:
python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.src.rpm
     i386:
python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm

     x86_64:
python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson