This update provides Python 3.4.5, which brings many fixes and enhancements.
The following security issues have been fixed:
- CVE-2016-1000110: CGIHandler could have allowed setting of HTTP_PROXY environment variable based on user supplied Proxy request header. (bsc#989523) - CVE-2016-0772: A vulnerability in smtplib could have allowed a MITM attacker to perform a startTLS stripping attack. (bsc#984751) - CVE-2016-5636: A heap overflow in Python's zipimport module. (bsc#985177) - CVE-2016-5699: A header injection flaw in urrlib2/urllib/httplib/http.client. (bsc#985348)
The update also includes the following non-security fixes:
- Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with -Werror=declaration-after-statement. (bsc#951166) - Make urllib proxy var handling behave as usual on POSIX. (bsc#983582)
For a comprehensive list of changes please refer to the upstream change log: https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html