Included Python has security vulnerabilities #15359
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Bug
Either a bug report, or a bug fix. Let's hope for the latter!
Build/Install
Related to compiling or installing QGIS
Author Name: Kevin Gagel (Kevin Gagel)
Original Redmine Issue: 5918
Affected QGIS version: 1.8.0
Redmine category:build/install
The version of Python included with version 1.8.0 of QGIS has a security alert associated with it making QGIS insecure and security software is alerting on it.
Python announcement: http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/
Python alert as reported here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-December/115116.html
The security software that alerted me is Secunia's Personal Software Inspector which can be downloaded and used freely from here: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Screen shot of the alert is provided in the attachment "QGIS Security Alert.png".
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