Fedora alert FEDORA-2015-4084 (python-requests)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python-requests-2.5.3-2.fc21 | |
| Date: | Sun, 29 Mar 2015 04:51:40 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20150329045140.9B48560C701E@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-4084 2015-03-18 05:57:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : python-requests Product : Fedora 21 Version : 2.5.3 Release : 2.fc21 URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests Summary : HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings Description : Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python’s built-in urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the API is thoroughly broken. This library is designed to make HTTP requests easy for developers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Backport of patch to not ascribe cookies to the target domain. - https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/3bd8afbff... - http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/14/4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Mar 16 2015 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.5.3-2 - Backport fix for CVE-2015-2296. * Thu Feb 26 2015 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.5.3-1 - new version * Wed Feb 18 2015 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.5.1-1 - new version * Tue Dec 16 2014 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.5.0-3 - Pin python-urllib3 requirement at 1.10. - Fix requirement pinning syntax. * Thu Dec 11 2014 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.5.0-2 - Do the most basic of tests in the check section. * Thu Dec 11 2014 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.5.0-1 - Latest upstream, 2.5.0 for #1171068 * Wed Nov 5 2014 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.4.3-1 - Latest upstream, 2.4.3 for #1136283 * Wed Nov 5 2014 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 2.3.0-4 - Re-do unbundling by symlinking system libs into the requests/packages/ dir. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1202904 - CVE-2015-2296 python-requests: session fixation and cookie stealing vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202904 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-requests' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...