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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-585-1 March 11, 2008 python2.4/2.5 vulnerabilities CVE-2007-2052, CVE-2007-4965 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: python2.4 2.4.3-0ubuntu6.1 Ubuntu 6.10: python2.4 2.4.4~c1-0ubuntu1.1 python2.5 2.5-2ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 7.04: python2.4 2.4.4-2ubuntu7.1 python2.5 2.5.1-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 7.10: python2.4 2.4.4-6ubuntu4.1 python2.5 2.5.1-5ubuntu5.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Piotr Engelking discovered that strxfrm in Python was not correctly calculating the size of the destination buffer. This could lead to small information leaks, which might be used by attackers to gain additional knowledge about the state of a running Python script. (CVE-2007-2052) A flaw was discovered in the Python imageop module. If a script using the module could be tricked into processing a specially crafted set of arguments, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, or cause the application to crash. (CVE-2007-4965)