- Security fixes
Multiple vulnerabilities:
1) Various integer overflow errors exist in core modules e.g.
stringobject,
unicodeobject, bufferobject, longobject, tupleobject, stropmodule,
gcmodule, mmapmodule.
2) An integer overflow in the hashlib module can lead to an unreliable
cryptographic digest results.
3) Integer overflow errors in the processing of unicode strings can be
exploited to cause
buffer overflows on 32-bit systems.
4) An integer overflow exists in the PyOS_vsnprintf() function on
architectures that do not
have a "vsnprintf()" function.
5) An integer underflow error in the PyOS_vsnprintf() function when
passing zero-length strings
can lead to memory corruption.
PR: 127172 (based on)
Submitted by: bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com>
Obtained from: python svn
Security: CVE-2008-2315, CVE-2008-2316, CVE-2008-3142, CVE-2008-3144,
CVE-2008-3143. (vuxml come later)