CVE-2008-3142

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137
• http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2620
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31305
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31332
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31358
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31365
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31473
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31518
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32793
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37471
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164
• http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded