DSA-2880-1 python2.7 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2880-1 python2.7 -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Mar 2014

Affected Packages:

python2.7

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4238, CVE-2014-1912.

More information:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Python:

• CVE-2013-4238

  Ryan Sleevi discovered that NULL characters in the subject alternate names of SSL cerficates were parsed incorrectly.

• CVE-2014-1912

  Ryan Smith-Roberts discovered a buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into() function.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.3-6+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.6-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your python2.7 packages.