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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5636: Vulnerability in Python

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5636: Vulnerability in Python

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-python-27-2-7-9-0-175-3-10-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-python-34-3-4-3-0-175-3-10-0-3-0

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