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CVE-2008-3142

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Published: Aug 1, 2008Modified: Apr 23, 2026

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7.5
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 6.4
Source: NVD

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 (7)

Python
1 product
Python
Canonical
1 product
Ubuntu Linux
Debian
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Python
Python
Before 2.4.6
Python
From 2.5.0 to 2.5.3
Configuration B
4 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Canonical
Ubuntu Linux
Version 6.06
Ubuntu Linux
Version 7.04
Ubuntu Linux
Version 7.10
Ubuntu Linux
Version 8.04
Configuration C
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Debian Linux
Version 4.0

Related CWEs

CWE-120
Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

References (68)

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