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.

🔗 References (68)

• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137
• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt
• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.python.org/issue2620
• cve@mitrehttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
• cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31305
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31332
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31358
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31365
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31473
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31518
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/31687
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/32793
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33937
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/37471