IMDbPY aims to provide an easy way to access the IMDb's database using a
Python script. Platform-independent and written in pure Python, it's
theoretically independent from the data source (since IMDb provides two
or three different interfaces to their database).
ok sturm@.
Change abort() to try writing the oldmail file before quitting, so
that on the majority of server/network errors, previously delivered messages
are still remembered as "not new".
The Biopython Project is an international association of developers of
freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology.
It is a distributed collaborative effort to develop Python libraries and
applications which address the needs of current and future work in
bioinformatics.
ok sturm@.
Steve Kemp discovered a vulnerability in xonix, a game,
where an external program was invoked while retaining setgid privileges.
A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain gid "games".
ok brad@
This update fixes a longstanding bug that made Gnome 2 not play well
with macppc and sparc* arches. Additionally, it introduces a new patch
scheme for libtool since the later libtools recognize -pthread... well
mostly anyway.
Submitted by Victor Sahlstedt <cvss@home.se>.
CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface. It displays
directory contents including the file status details and provides
features like command history, filename insertion, or name completion
in order to help users to create commands to be executed by the shell.
Steve Grubb reports a buffer read overrun in libpng's
png_format_buffer function. A specially constructed PNG image
processed by an application using libpng may trigger the buffer
read overrun and possibly result in an application crash.
ok brad@
