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ELSA-2015-1330 Moderate: Oracle Linux python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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ELSA-2015-1330 Moderate: Oracle Linux python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/08/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/30/2015
Modified
07/09/2019

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-test
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tkinter

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