GSD-2008-1721
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23Details
Integer signedness error in the zlib extension module in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative signed integer, which triggers insufficient memory allocation and a buffer overflow.
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