Vulnerability CVE-2008-3142

Vulnerability CVE-2008-3142

Published: 2008-08-01 Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10	6.4/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
Python software foundation -> Python

References:

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://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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44170

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44173

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11466

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8422

Vulnerability CVE-2008-3142

CWE-119

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

7.5/10

6.4/10

10/10

Remote

Low

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: