Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7901
Revision Date:2014-06-23Version:19
Title:DSA-1667 python2.4 -- several vulnerabilities
Description:Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Python language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: David Remahl discovered several integer overflows in the stringobject, unicodeobject, bufferobject, longobject, tupleobject, stropmodule, gcmodule, and mmapmodule modules. Justin Ferguson discovered that incorrect memory allocation in the unicode_resize() function can lead to buffer overflows. Several integer overflows were discovered in various Python core modules. Several integer overflows were discovered in the PyOS_vsnprintf() function.
Family:unixClass:patch
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2008-2315
CVE-2008-3142
CVE-2008-3143
CVE-2008-3144
DSA-1667
Platform(s):Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s):python2.4
Definition Synopsis
  • Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is installed.
  • AND Architecture section
  • Architecture independent section
  • Installed architecture is all
  • AND Packages section
  • python2.4-examples is earlier than 2.4.4-3+etch2
  • OR idle-python2.4 is earlier than 2.4.4-3+etch2
  • OR python2.4-minimal is earlier than 2.4.4-3+etch2
  • OR python2.4-dev is earlier than 2.4.4-3+etch2
  • OR python2.4-dbg is earlier than 2.4.4-3+etch2
  • OR python2.4 is earlier than 2.4.4-3+etch2
  • BACK