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python - An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

Description:

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes
modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and
dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and
libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk,
Mac and MFC).

Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++.
Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need
a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard
Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget
set for Tk and RPM.

Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs
package.

Packages

- Fix all of the low priority security bugs:
- Resolves: rhbz#486329
- Multiple integer overflows in python core (CVE-2008-2315)
- Resolves: 455008 
- PyString_FromStringAndSize does not check for negative size values (CVE-2008-1887)
- Resolves: 443810
- Multiple integer overflows discovered by Google (CVE-2008-3143)
- Resolves: 455013 
- Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing (CVE-2008-3142)
- Resolves: 454990
- Potential integer underflow and overflow in the PyOS_vsnprintf C API function (CVE-2008-3144)
- Resolves: 455018
- imageop module multiple integer overflows (CVE-2008-4864)
- Resolves: 469656
- stringobject, unicodeobject integer overflows (CVE-2008-5031)
- Resolves: 470915
- integer signedness error in the zlib extension module (CVE-2008-1721)
- Resolves: 442005
- imageop module integer overflows (CVE-2008-1679)
- CVE-2008-1679 patch is part of python-2.3.4-CVE-2008-4864-imageop-{1,2}.patch
- Resolves: 441306

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