USN-1592-1: Python 2.7 vulnerabilities

Niels Heinen discovered that the urllib and urllib2 modules would process Location headers that specify a redirection to file: URLs. A remote attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04. CVE-2011-1521 It was...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Python (ZYPP Patch Number 8080) (BEAST)

The following issues have been fixed in this update : - hash randomization issues CVE-2012-115 see below - SimpleHTTPServer XSS. CVE-2011-1015 - SSL BEAST vulnerability CVE-2011-3389 The hash randomization fix is by default disabled to keep compatibility with existing python code when it extracts...