CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3142
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-01
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro.
Affected configurations
• python python (< 2.4.6)
• python python (>= 2.5.0 < 2.5.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• debian debian linux 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.python.org/issue2620 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31305 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31332 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31358 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31365 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31473 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31518 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32793 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 Not Applicable
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289 Third Party Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164 Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 Permissions Required
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44170 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44173 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11466 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8422 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.python.org/issue2620 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31305 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31332 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31358 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31365 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31473 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31518 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32793 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 Not Applicable
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289 Third Party Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164 Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 Permissions Required
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44170 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44173 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11466 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8422 Third Party Advisory