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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000158: Security patch for python27 ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 17, 2017
Added
Feb 1, 2018
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

CPython (aka Python) up to 2.7.13 is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the PyString_DecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-based buffer overflow (and possible arbitrary code execution)

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade--python34amazon-linux-upgrade-python27amazon-linux-upgrade-python35
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