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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for python27 (ALAS-2014-293) (CVE-2014-1912)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for python27 (ALAS-2014-293) (CVE-2014-1912)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/28/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-test
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-python27-tools

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