Issued:
2011-02-16
Updated:
2011-02-16

RHSA-2011:0260 - Low: python security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Low: python security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

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)

Users of Python should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian4ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems4s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems4s390
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop4i386

Updated Packages

  • python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ia64.rpm
  • tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm
  • python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ppc.rpm
  • python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ppc.rpm
  • python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390x.rpm
  • python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ppc.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
  • python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm
  • python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm
  • tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ppc.rpm
  • python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390x.rpm
  • python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390x.rpm
  • python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ia64.rpm
  • python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.src.rpm
  • tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
  • tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ia64.rpm
  • python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ia64.rpm
  • python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390x.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm
  • python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ia64.rpm
  • python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
  • tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.i386.rpm
  • python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.ppc.rpm
  • tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information