Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Python. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3201

Affected Products

Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

19b48c55d1c81dde82c6ff5577ec8aeee741a004 python-devel-2.5-14.fc7.ppc64.rpm
e3780a0d8ee1f0831840e46d69ec4856b993e531 python-debuginfo-2.5-14.fc7.ppc64.rpm
4702d8d8b56a41f9a809d6513012eaff97053f5b tkinter-2.5-14.fc7.ppc64.rpm
d2912c0f1ec7049e2e12511c7df4bf3b0fbf1e62 python-tools-2.5-14.fc7.ppc64.rpm
d53809ea841182f22ee59e3e4fe1ca10e68a999c python-2.5-14.fc7.ppc64.rpm
88fb6c0c27a77ffe9d7d5f536a95a35d635ae12d python-libs-2.5-14.fc7.ppc64.rpm
787611a8a8654d34199a8c9e4dcc19daf63244b7 tkinter-2.5-14.fc7.i386.rpm
078edabdd4ef06d96ba129119aa07b692187813c python-debuginfo-2.5-14.fc7.i386.rpm
8b1e8a6356dc193022a21ba5edf49da5e5f324e1 python-2.5-14.fc7.i386.rpm
bc80242891a2ec1f2c5ee388c46fc7bb964c106d python-devel-2.5-14.fc7.i386.rpm
b79080fa4731b51d12f979a16900a45320314d5f python-libs-2.5-14.fc7.i386.rpm
7bd18c479ef53f84caf4d7ec947b4aaae9b86423 python-tools-2.5-14.fc7.i386.rpm
e616ee4bd058011a934aeb9f2b021fa7750985c9 tkinter-2.5-14.fc7.x86_64.rpm
bf6ed59b839c0479a56a23283983d68a057bc0bc python-2.5-14.fc7.x86_64.rpm
db37ad76506450cc64f05ae9eb1d8be81c139aaa python-debuginfo-2.5-14.fc7.x86_64.rpm
9c15efd777c73df234a28d4ac9d0a60a8ba486c9 python-devel-2.5-14.fc7.x86_64.rpm
77de8859ac4745449f54adef2e7c2b280130db82 python-libs-2.5-14.fc7.x86_64.rpm
79a0b699e4250eefbf926299bfb7eac79262f5c9 python-tools-2.5-14.fc7.x86_64.rpm
ff3650bb1385ca3e27368317ab03e1d52a03c372 python-libs-2.5-14.fc7.ppc.rpm
da2e84ae407934e1d510a6c5ea1a4105794182d8 python-2.5-14.fc7.ppc.rpm
e330edb0f1e6f9082564455112cc285d8c6b5ceb python-devel-2.5-14.fc7.ppc.rpm
f1a52deecfcaef1444352e68b55025a1414d0cae python-debuginfo-2.5-14.fc7.ppc.rpm
90fb955eac390e0fa49e51b9d29db4bdf2162833 python-tools-2.5-14.fc7.ppc.rpm
a25e11ffe4add7fad8b8a4bc4031a1521689f77b tkinter-2.5-14.fc7.ppc.rpm
d4d994f7acc67000375e0fa2f927a3eb0b6b1c80 python-2.5-14.fc7.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3654
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00378.html

ChangeLog

2007-10-30 : Initial release

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