vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3177: Security patch for python3, python, python38 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 19, 2021
Added
Feb 22, 2021
Modified
Sep 28, 2023

Description

Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf is used unsafely.

Solutions

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