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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/python37
From: Nikita
Date: 2023-05-02 18:06:59
Message id: 20230502160659.304B8FA87@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
python37: update to version 3.7.16
Changelog:
Python 3.7.16
Release Date: Dec. 6, 2022
This is a security release of Python 3.7
Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.7.16, a security bugfix release \
for the legacy 3.7 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series \
of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here.
Security content in this release
gh-98739: Updated bundled libexpat to 2.5.0 to fix CVE-2022-43680 (heap \
use-after-free).
gh-98517: Port XKCP’s fix for the buffer overflows in SHA-3 to fix \
CVE-2022-37454.
gh-98433: The IDNA codec decoder used on DNS hostnames by socket or asyncio \
related name resolution functions no longer involves a quadratic algorithm to \
fix CVE-2022-45061. This prevents a potential CPU denial of service if an \
out-of-spec excessive length hostname involving bidirectional characters were \
decoded. Some protocols such as urllib http 3xx redirects potentially allow for \
an attacker to supply such a name.
gh-68966: The deprecated mailcap module now refuses to inject unsafe text \
(filenames, MIME types, parameters) into shell commands to address \
CVE-2015-20107. Instead of using such text, it will warn and act as if a match \
was not found (or for test commands, as if the test failed).
gh-100001: python -m http.server no longer allows terminal control \
characters sent within a garbage request to be printed to the stderr server log.
No installers
According to the release calendar specified in PEP 537, Python 3.7 is now in the \
"security fixes only" stage of its life cycle: 3.7 branch only accepts \
security fixes and releases of those are made irregularly in source-only form \
until June 2023. Python 3.7 does not receive regular bug fixes anymore, and \
binary installers are no longer provided for it. Python 3.7.9 was the last full \
bugfix release of Python 3.7 with binary installers.
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