CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2135
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Description
The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• python python (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.4)
• python python (>= 3.2.0 < 3.2.4)
• python python (>= 3.3.0 < 3.3.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• debian debian linux 6.0
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670389 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.python.org/issue14579 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51087 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51089 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1615-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670389 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.python.org/issue14579 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51087 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51089 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/25/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1615-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1 Third Party Advisory