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CVE-2008-3142

N/A
Published: August 1, 2008 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxPython

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%
6.067.047.108.04
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
4.0
Python· Python
95%
v < 2.4.62.5.0 ≤ v < 2.5.3
Affected range stops below 2.4.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 2.5.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (34)

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.python.org/issue2620
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31305
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31332
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31358

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-120

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