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49. By Jamie Strandboge on 2012-10-15

* SECURITY UPDATE: optionally disallow setting sys.path when setting
  sys.argv
  - debian/patches/CVE-2008-5983.dpatch: add new C API function,
    PySys_SetArgvEx
  - CVE-2008-5983
* SECURITY UPDATE: fix integer overflows in audioop module
  - debian/patches/CVE-2010-1634.dpatch: Fix incorrect and UB-inducing
    overflow checks
  - CVE-2010-1634
* SECURITY UPDATE: fix DoS in audioop module
  - debian/patches/CVE-2010-2089.dpatch: ensure that the input string length
    is a multiple of the frame size
  - CVE-2010-2089
* SECURITY UPDATE: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure.
  - debian/patches/CVE-2011-1015.dpatch: Relative paths are now collapsed
    within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
  - CVE-2011-1015
* SECURITY UPDATE: update urllib and urllib2 for invalid redirections
  - debian/patches/CVE-2011-1521.dpatch: only process Location headers for
    http, https, and ftp
  - http://bugs.python.org/issue11662
  - CVE-2011-1521
* SECURITY UPDATE: fix XSS in SimpleHTTPServer
  - debian/patches/CVE-2011-4940.dpatch: add a charset parameter to the
    Content-type
  - CVE-2011-4940
* SECURE UPDATE: http://bugs.python.org/issue13512
  - debian/patches/CVE-2011-4944.dpatch: create ~/.pypirc securely
  - CVE-2011-4944
* SECURITY UPDATE: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in SimpleXMLRPCServer upon
  malformed POST request
  - debian/patches/CVE-2012-0845.dpatch: break if don't receive EOF in
    Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
  - CVE-2012-0845
* SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via hash collisions
  - debian.patches/CVE-2012-0876+CVE-2012-1148.dpatch: Add random salt value
    to hash inputs in lib/xmlparse.c
  - CVE-2012-0876
* SECURITY UPDATE: Denial of service via memory leak
  - debian.patches/CVE-2012-0876+CVE-2012-1148.dpatch: Properly reallocate
    memory in lib/xmlparse.c
  - CVE-2012-1148
* SECURITY UPDATE: fix DoS in smtpd.py
  - debian/patches/CVE-2010-3493.dpatch: adds proper error handling on
    accept() when smtpd accepts new incoming connections
  - http://bugs.python.org/issue9129
  - CVE-2010-3493
* debian/patches/testsuite-linux3.dpatch: adjust testsuite for linux3

48. By Jamie Strandboge on 2010-01-21

* SECURITY UPDATE: fix DoS via malformed XML
  - debian/patches/CVE-2009-3720.dpatch: update Modules/expat/xmltok_impl.c
    to not access beyond end of input string
  - CVE-2009-3720
* SECURITY UPDATE: fix DoS via malformed UTF-8 sequences
  - debian/patches/CVE-2009-3560.dpatch: update Modules/expat/xmlparse.c to
    properly recognize the end of a token
  - CVE-2009-3560

47. By Marc Deslauriers on 2009-07-21

* SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via multiple integer
  overflows in the imageop module
  - debian/rules, debian/patches/CVE-2008-4864.dpatch: introduce new
    functions for size checks in Modules/imageop.c, introduce tests in
    Lib/test/test_imageop.py.
  - CVE-2008-4864
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service or possible arbitrary code execution
  via multiple integer overflows in the expandtabs method
  - debian/rules, debian/patches/CVE-2008-5031.dpatch: make sure we don't
    overflow in Objects/{stringobject,unicodeobject}.c and add tests to
    Lib/test/test_{str,unicode}.py.
  - CVE-2008-5031

46. By Kees Cook on 2008-07-30

* SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via multiple integer overflows.
* debian/rules, debian/patches/CVE-2008-3142.dpatch,
  debian/patches/CVE-2008-3144.dpatch, debian/patches/CVE-2008-2315.dpatch:
  upstream fixes, thanks to Robert Buchholz.

45. By Matthias Klose on 2008-04-16

* Fix CVE-2008-1679, integer overflows in the imageop module.
* Fix CVE-2008-1721, integer signedness error in the zlib extension module.
* Fix issue, PyString_FromStringAndSize() to be considered unsafe.

44. By Matthias Klose on 2008-03-12

* Build depend on libdb4.6-dev on amd64, i386, lpia; use libdb4.2-dev
  for all other architectures.
* Backport new function signal.set_wakeup_fd from the trunk.
  Background: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569
* Regenerate the documentation.

43. By Matthias Klose on 2008-03-11

Python 2.4.5 release.

42. By Matthias Klose on 2008-03-09

* Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
  - Rebuild the control file.
  - Build the -doc package from this source.

41. By Matthias Klose on 2008-02-27

Build-depend on libdb4.2-dev on all architectures; 4.6 is seriously
broken when used with the _bsddb extension. LP: #196147.

40. By Matthias Klose on 2008-02-26

Add gc module to python2.4-minimal.