CVE-2008-1887 (GCVE-0-2008-1887)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-18 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Python 2.5.2 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via multiple vectors that cause a negative size value to be provided to the PyString_FromStringAndSize function, which allocates less memory than expected when assert() is disabled and triggers a buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
27 references
Date Public
2008-04-08 00:00
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