Synopsis: Moderate: python security update Issue date: 2011-05-05 CVE Names: CVE-2009-3720 CVE-2010-1634 CVE-2010-2089 CVE-2010-3493 CVE-2011-1015 CVE-2011-1521 A flaw was found in the Python urllib and urllib2 libraries where they would not differentiate between different target URLs when handling automatic redirects. This caused Python applications using these modules to follow any new URL that they understood, including the "file://" URL type. This could allow a remote server to force a local Python application to read a local file instead of the remote one, possibly exposing local files that were not meant to be exposed. (CVE-2011-1521) Multiple flaws were found in the Python audioop module. Supplying certain inputs could cause the audioop module to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-1634, CVE-2010-2089) A race condition was found in the way the Python smtpd module handled new connections. A remote user could use this flaw to cause a Python script using the smtpd module to terminate. (CVE-2010-3493) An information disclosure flaw was found in the way the Python CGIHTTPServer module processed certain HTTP GET requests. A remote attacker could use a specially-crafted request to obtain the CGI script's source code. (CVE-2011-1015) A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way the Python Expat parser handled malformed UTF-8 sequences when processing XML files. A specially-crafted XML file could cause Python applications using the Python Expat parser to crash while parsing the file. (CVE-2009-3720) SL 4.x SRPMS: python-2.3.4-14.10.el4.src.rpm i386: python-2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386.rpm python-devel-2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386.rpm python-docs-2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386.rpm python-tools-2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386.rpm tkinter-2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386.rpm x86_64: python-2.3.4-14.10.el4.x86_64.rpm python-devel-2.3.4-14.10.el4.x86_64.rpm python-docs-2.3.4-14.10.el4.x86_64.rpm python-tools-2.3.4-14.10.el4.x86_64.rpm tkinter-2.3.4-14.10.el4.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: python-2.4.3-44.el5.src.rpm i386: python-2.4.3-44.el5.i386.rpm python-devel-2.4.3-44.el5.i386.rpm python-libs-2.4.3-44.el5.i386.rpm python-tools-2.4.3-44.el5.i386.rpm tkinter-2.4.3-44.el5.i386.rpm x86_64: python-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64.rpm python-devel-2.4.3-44.el5.i386.rpm python-devel-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64.rpm python-libs-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64.rpm python-tools-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64.rpm tkinter-2.4.3-44.el5.x86_64.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team