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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-5636: Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-5636: Python: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size value, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-python

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