The vulnerability is in the Python tarfile package, in code that uses un-sanitized ... steps to exploit CVE-2007-4559 in the Windows version of Spyder IDE, an open-source cross-platform integrated ...

It isn’t found on older Python versions, hence our try/except block ... context managers to mark segments of code that require or run outside the GIL, respectively. If you build Cython modules ...

Old Python package comes back to life and delivers malicious payload Your email has been sent A recently spotted supply chain attack abused an old but legitimate Python package to deliver a ...

But migrating the incredible amount of Python code in the wild over to the latest ... it wouldn’t matter if people wanted to stick to the older version they were more comfortable with.

so if a new release of Python adds a feature unavailable to earlier Django versions, engineers on the Django project will either modify code or release a library to make support in older Python ...

PSF is urging its legion of Python users to upgrade systems to Python 3.8.8 or 3.9.2, in particular to address the remote code execution ... to ensure the built-in versions of Python are shielded.