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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.
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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.
Family:
unix
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- CentOS Linux 5
- Oracle Linux 5
- CentOS Linux 3
- CentOS Linux 4
- Oracle Linux 4
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
- CVE-2008-3142
Product(s):