[linux-sparc-announce] LFSSA-2016-0365 Important: Linux for SPARC 1.0 python security update

[Announcements for Linux for SPARC]

Linux for SPARC Security Advisory LFSSA-2016-0365

The following updated rpms for Linux for SPARC 1.0 have been uploaded to 
the yum.oracle.com:

sparc64:
python-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.sparc64.rpm
python-devel-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.sparc64.rpm
python-libs-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.sparc64.rpm
python-test-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.sparc64.rpm
python-tools-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.sparc64.rpm
tkinter-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.sparc64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://yum.oracle.com/repo/linux_sparc64/latest/python-2.6.6-66.0.2.el6_8.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.6-64.0.2]
- Add  to with_valgrind_config_opt global to prevent src.rpm from 
erroring out
- sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux

[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