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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 497540 - grp module does not support whole uid/gid range
• BZ - 541698 - CVE-2009-4134 CVE-2010-1449 CVE-2010-1450 python: rgbimg: multiple security issues

CVEs

• CVE-2010-1450
• CVE-2009-4134
• CVE-2010-1449

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
s390
python-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 8a5012a5b9e2fd3802cf114d0a3401f6cd536bf21963392a226b882508d5ce10
python-devel-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 88f99bbe68f0d29f418d4b02452a42b24fe18921647db04d2ac516caea401094
python-docs-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 9fa017ecc1482a30712b696cd8a4d36f24ca69c2e32658c3ce05f0ed98581169
python-tools-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: d1bdba98841fbe20cd2676092b8c5cb400fc40a51cb790e1af5542a09ee746a4
tkinter-2.3.4-14.9.el4.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 89d21cf8a64d0cd66ea02d7e593c1fee4e45223efb57b2bf851d0a95b9a2a987