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