Fedora 12 : python-2.6.2-8.fc12 (2010-9565)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47600

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Jun 4 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.6.2-8

- ensure that the compiler is invoked with '-fwrapv' (rhbz#594819)

- CVE-2010-1634: fix various integer overflow checks in the audioop module (patch 113)

- CVE-2010-2089: further checks within the audioop module (patch 114)

- CVE-2008-5983: the new PySys_SetArgvEx entry point from r81399 (patch 115)

- Fri Mar 12 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>
- 2.6.2-7

- document all patches, and remove the commented-out ones

- Address some of the issues identified in package review (bug 226342) :

- update libs requirement on base package to use %{name} for consistency's sake

- convert from backticks to $() syntax throughout

- wrap value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in quotes

- convert '/usr/bin/find' requirement to 'findutils'

- remove trailing periods from summaries of subpackages

- fix spelling mistake in description of -test subpackage

- convert usage of $$RPM_BUILD_ROOT to %{buildroot} throughout, for stylistic consistency

- supply dirmode arguments to defattr directives

- replace references to /usr with %{_prefix}; replace references to /usr/include with %{_includedir}

- fixup the build when __python_ver is set (Zach Sadecki;
bug 533989); use pybasever in the files section

- Mon Jan 25 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.6.2-6

- update python-2.6.2-config.patch to remove downstream customization of build of pyexpat and elementtree modules

- add patch adapted from upstream (patch 3) to add support for building against system expat; add
--with-system-expat to 'configure' invocation (patch 3)

- remove embedded copy of expat from source tree during 'prep'

- Mon Jan 25 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>
- 2.6.2-5

- replace 'define' with 'global' throughout

- introduce macros for 3 directories, replacing expanded references throughout: %{pylibdir}, %{dynload_dir}, %{site_packages}

- explicitly list all lib-dynload files, rather than dynamically gathering the payload into a temporary text file, so that we can be sure what we are shipping;
remove now-redundant testing for presence of certain .so files

- remove embedded copy of libffi and zlib from source tree before building

- Mon Jan 25 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>
- 2.6.2-4

- change python-2.6.2-config.patch to remove our downstream change to curses configuration in Modules/Setup.dist, so that the curses modules are built using setup.py with the downstream default (linking against libncursesw.so, rather than libncurses.so), rather than within the Makefile; add a test to %install to verify the dso files that the curses module is linked against the correct DSO (bug 539917; changes _cursesmodule.so -> _curses.so)

- Fri Jan 8 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> - 2.6.2-3

- fix Lib/SocketServer.py to avoid trying to use non-existent keyword args for os.waitpid (patch 52, rhbz:552404, Adrian Reber)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected python package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47600

File Name: fedora_2010-9565.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5983, CVE-2010-1634, CVE-2010-2089

BID: 40370, 40862, 40863

FEDORA: 2010-9565

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