Re: [PATCH] python: fix for Security Advisory - python - CVE-2012-2135

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Friday 16 November 2012 16:53:42 yanjun.zhu wrote:
> The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the
> aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler
> function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information
> (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash)
> via unspecified vectors.
> 
> http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-2135
> 
> Signed-off-by: yanjun.zhu <yanjun.zhu@windriver.com>
> ---
>  .../python/python/python-2.7.2-CVE-2012-2135.patch |   12 ++++++++++++
>  recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bbappend      |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644
> recipes-devtools/python/python/python-2.7.2-CVE-2012-2135.patch

This patch is also against OE-Core, could you send this to the OE-Core list as 
well?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre