python2.4 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the
Python language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2008-2315
  David Remahl discovered several integer overflows in the
  stringobject, unicodeobject, bufferobject, longobject,
  tupleobject, stropmodule, gcmodule, and mmapmodule modules.
• CVE-2008-3142
  Justin Ferguson discovered that incorrect memory allocation in
  the unicode_resize() function can lead to buffer overflows.
• CVE-2008-3143
  Several integer overflows were discovered in various Python core
  modules.
• CVE-2008-3144
  Several integer overflows were discovered in the PyOS_vsnprintf()
  function.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.4.4-3+etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the upcoming stable
distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.4.5-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your python2.4 packages.