[El-errata] ELSA-2016-1626 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 python security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Aug 18 13:30:21 PDT 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-1626

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1626.html

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

i386:
python-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
python-devel-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
python-libs-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
python-test-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
python-tools-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
tkinter-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm

x86_64:
python-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
python-devel-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
python-devel-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
python-libs-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.i686.rpm
python-libs-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
python-test-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
python-tools-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
tkinter-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/python-2.6.6-66.0.1.el6_8.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.6-66.0.1]
- Add Oracle Linux distribution in platform.py [orabug 21288328] (Keshav 
Sharma)

[2.6.6-66]
- Fix for CVE-2016-1000110 HTTPoxy attack
Resolves: rhbz#1359161

[2.6.6-65]
- Fix for CVE-2016-0772 python: smtplib StartTLS stripping attack 
(rhbz#1303647)
   Raise an error when STARTTLS fails (upstream patch)
- Fix for CVE-2016-5699 python: http protocol steam injection attack 
(rhbz#1303699)
   Disabled HTTP header injections in httplib (upstream patch)
Resolves: rhbz#1346354






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