Patch python27 for CVE-2014-1912.

pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/CVE-2014-1912.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# Edited from Mercurial patch: deleted the NEWS hunk, since it didn't apply cleanly.
+# It added the following line to NEWS:
+# - Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
+
+# HG changeset patch
+# User Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
+# Date 1389671978 18000
+# Node ID 87673659d8f7ba1623cd4914f09ad3d2ade034e9
+# Parent  2631d33ee7fbd5f0288931ef37872218d511d2e8
+complain when nbytes > buflen to fix possible buffer overflow (closes #20246)
+
+diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
++++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+@@ -1620,6 +1620,16 @@ class BufferIOTest(SocketConnectedTest):
+ 
+     _testRecvFromIntoMemoryview = _testRecvFromIntoArray
+ 
++    def testRecvFromIntoSmallBuffer(self):
++        # See issue #20246.
++        buf = bytearray(8)
++        self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.cli_conn.recvfrom_into, buf, 1024)
++
++    def _testRecvFromIntoSmallBuffer(self):
++        with test_support.check_py3k_warnings():
++            buf = buffer(MSG*2048)
++        self.serv_conn.send(buf)
++
+ 
+ TIPC_STYPE = 2000
+ TIPC_LOWER = 200
+diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
+--- a/Misc/ACKS
++++ b/Misc/ACKS
+@@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ Eric V. Smith
+ Christopher Smith
+ Gregory P. Smith
+ Roy Smith
++Ryan Smith-Roberts
+ Rafal Smotrzyk
+ Dirk Soede
+ Paul Sokolovsky
+diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
+--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
++++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
+@@ -2742,6 +2742,10 @@ sock_recvfrom_into(PySocketSockObject *s
+     if (recvlen == 0) {
+         /* If nbytes was not specified, use the buffer's length */
+         recvlen = buflen;
++    } else if (recvlen > buflen) {
++        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
++                        "nbytes is greater than the length of the buffer");
++        goto error;
+     }
+ 
+     readlen = sock_recvfrom_guts(s, buf.buf, recvlen, flags, &addr);
+

pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/default.nix

@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ let
       # patch python to put zero timestamp into pyc
       # if DETERMINISTIC_BUILD env var is set
       ./deterministic-build.patch
+
+      # See http://bugs.python.org/issue20246
+      # This will be fixed in 2.7.7.
+      ./CVE-2014-1912.patch
     ];
 
   postPatch = stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.gcc.libc != null) ''