CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4980

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-10-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the repr function in Python 2.3 through 2.6 before 20060822 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted wide character UTF-32/UCS-4 strings to certain scripts.

Affected configurations

• python python (< 2.3.6) • python python (>= 2.4.0 < 2.4.4)

References