| Description: | Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
Multiple flaws were found in the Python rgbimg module. If an application written in Python was using the rgbimg module and loaded a specially-crafted SGI image file, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2009-4134, CVE-2010-1449, CVE-2010-1450)
This update also fixes the following bugs:
Python 2.3.4's time.strptime() function did not correctly handle the "%W" week number format string. This update backports the _strptime implementation from Python 2.3.6, fixing this issue. (BZ#436001)
Python 2.3.4's socket.htons() function returned partially-uninitialized data on IBM System z, generally leading to incorrect results. (BZ#513341)
Python 2.3.4's pwd.getpwuid() and grp.getgrgid() functions did not support the full range of user and group IDs on 64-bit architectures, leading to "OverflowError" exceptions for large input values. This update adds support for the full range of user and group IDs on 64-bit architectures. (BZ#497540)
Users of Python should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
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