Bug report #5918
Included Python has security vulnerabilities
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Build/Install | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | 1.8.0 | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | upstream |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 15359 |
Description
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".
History
#1
Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 12 years ago
- Resolution set to upstream
- Status changed from Open to Closed
upstream bug OSGeo4W #297 filed.