Bug 446007

Summary:	Python Needs an Update
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jonathan Steffan <jonathansteffan>
Component:	python	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	5.1	CC:	katzj, sghosh
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Description Jonathan Steffan 2008-05-11 20:36:09 UTC

Description of problem:
My exact use case is trying to push zope 2.10.6 out to epel5. However, we need
python 2.4.4+. (Yes, I could patch the makefile and likely everything will work)
There are security issues with 2.4.3. Please update to at least 2.4.4 (2.4.5
would be nice.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-2.4.3-19.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install python
2. Try building zope 2.10.6 (and 2.10.5.. unless patched)
  
Actual results:
Fail.

Expected results:
Zope can build without being patched to ignore the python warnings.

Additional info:
Just because my usecase is for zope, this does not mean that the security issues
should not be addressed.

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.4/NEWS.txt has all the stuff that
has been fixed.

http://www.python.org/news/security/PSF-2006-001/

Comment 1 Subhendu Ghosh 2009-05-15 03:29:01 UTC

python-2.4.3-24.el5.x86_64

bash$ rpm -q --changelog python | grep -i cve
- Fix CVE-2007-4965 int-overflow for some image operations
- Fixed bug #208166 / CVE-2006-4980: repr unicode buffer overflow

Security issues are addressed in the Red Hat version by backporting the fixes.


Zope can be easily compiled using the appropriate configure option:

./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python

running "make test" results in the following:
Total: 6518 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors in 2 minutes 49.169 seconds.