[El-errata] ELSA-2013-1582 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-1582

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1582.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
python-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm
python-devel-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm
python-libs-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm
python-test-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm
python-tools-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm
tkinter-2.6.6-51.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
python-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-devel-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-libs-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-test-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-tools-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm
tkinter-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/python-2.6.6-51.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.6-51]
- Fixed memory leak in _ssl._get_peer_alt_names
Resolves: rhbz#1002983

[2.6.6-50]
- Added fix for CVE-2013-4238
Resolves: rhbz#998784

[2.6.6-49]
- Fix shebangs in several files in python-tools subpackage
Resolves: rhbz#521898

[2.6.6-48]
- Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
Resolves: rhbz#841937

[2.6.6-47]
- Urlparse now parses query and fragment of urls for any scheme.
Resolves: rhbz#978129

[2.6.6-46]
- Add wrapper for select.select to restart a system call
Resolves: rhbz#948025

[2.6.6-45]
- Add try-except to catch OSError in WatchedFileHandler
Resolves: rhbz#919163

[2.6.6-44]
- Fix urandom to throw proper exception
Resolves: rhbz#893034

[2.6.6-43]
- Backport of collections.OrderedDict from Python 2.7
Resolves: rhbz#929258

[2.6.6-42]
- Add an explicit RPATH to _elementtree.so pointing at the directory
containing system expat
Resolves: rhbz#962779

[2.6.6-41]
- Don't let failed incoming SSL connection stay open forever
Resolves: rhbz#960168

[2.6.6-40]
- Fix Python not reading Alternative Subject Names from some SSL
certificates
Resolves: rhbz#928390

[2.6.6-39]
- Remove BOM insertion code from SysLogHandler that causes messages to be
treated as EMERG level
Resolves: rhbz#845802

[2.6.6-38]
- move most of the payload of the core package to the libs subpackage, given
that the libs aren't meaningfully usable without the standard libraries
- preserve timestamps when fixing shebangs (patch 158) and when installing,
to minimize .pyc/.pyo differences across architectures (due to the embedded
mtime in .pyc/.pyo headers)
- fix multilib issue in /usr/bin/modulator and /usr/bin/pynche
Related: rhbz#958256