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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-4616: Improper Validation of Array Index

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-4616: Improper Validation of Array Index

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/24/2017
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-python
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-python2

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