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Development Libraries

python-devel - The libraries and header files needed for Python development.

Website: http://www.python.org/
License: PSF - see LICENSE
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The Python programming language's interpreter can be extended with
dynamically loaded extensions and can be embedded in other programs.
This package contains the header files and libraries needed to do
these types of tasks.

Install python-devel if you want to develop Python extensions.  The
python package will also need to be installed.  You'll probably also
want to install the python-docs package, which contains Python
documentation.

Packages

python-devel-2.4.3-27.el5.ia64 [3.2 MiB] Changelog by James Antill (2009-06-11):
- Add workaround for subprocess import with threads
- Resolves: 499095
- Resolves: rhbz#499097
- Resolves: rhbz#498979
python-devel-2.4.3-24.el5_3.6.ia64 [3.2 MiB] Changelog by Jan iankko Lieskovsky (2009-07-16):
- Fix all of the low priority security bugs:
- Resolves: rhbz#486351
- Multiple integer overflows in python core (CVE-2008-2315)
- Resolves: 455008
- PyString_FromStringAndSize does not check for negative size values (CVE-2008-1887)
- Resolves: 443810
- Multiple integer overflows discovered by Google (CVE-2008-3143)
- Resolves: 455013
- Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing (CVE-2008-3142)
- Resolves: 454990
- Potential integer underflow and overflow in the PyOS_vsnprintf C API function (CVE-2008-3144)
- Resolves: 455018
- imageop module multiple integer overflows (CVE-2008-4864)
- Resolves: 469656
- stringobject, unicodeobject integer overflows (CVE-2008-5031) 
- Resolves: 470915
- integer signedness error in the zlib extension module (CVE-2008-1721)
- Resolves: 442005
- off-by-one locale.strxfrm() (possible memory disclosure) (CVE-2007-2052)
- Resolves: 235093
- imageop module heap corruption (CVE-2007-4965)
- Resolves: 295971
python-devel-2.4.3-24.el5.ia64 [3.3 MiB] Changelog by James Antill (2008-09-17):
- Remove unapproved socket constants and xmlrpclib fixes.
- Resolves: rhbz#444088
- Resolves: rhbz#460694

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