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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2008-3142

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2008-3142 CWE-120

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities