vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-1000158: python2.6, python2.7 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 17, 2017
Added
Sep 30, 2018
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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

debian-upgrade-python2-6debian-upgrade-python2-7
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