CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2008-3142

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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

References
Link Resource
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
http://bugs.python.org/issue2620 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31365 Not Applicable
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31518 Not Applicable
http://secunia.com/advisories/31358 Not Applicable
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164 Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163 Broken Link
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31305 Not Applicable
http://secunia.com/advisories/31332 Not Applicable
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Not Applicable
http://secunia.com/advisories/31473 Not Applicable
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Not Applicable
http://secunia.com/advisories/32793 Not Applicable
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667 Third Party Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 Permissions Required
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 Not Applicable
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288 Permissions Required
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44173 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44170 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8422 Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11466 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2008-08-01 02:41

Updated : 2022-07-05 06:41

NVD link : CVE-2008-3142

Mitre link : CVE-2008-3142

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-120