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/
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.