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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5031

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5031

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/10/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Python 2.2.3 through 2.5.1, and 2.6, allow context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via a large integer value in the tabsize argument to the expandtabs method, as implemented by (1) the string_expandtabs function in Objects/stringobject.c and (2) the unicode_expandtabs function in Objects/unicodeobject.c. NOTE: this vulnerability reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2315.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-python
  • suse-upgrade-python-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-python-curses
  • suse-upgrade-python-demo
  • suse-upgrade-python-devel
  • suse-upgrade-python-doc
  • suse-upgrade-python-doc-pdf
  • suse-upgrade-python-gdbm
  • suse-upgrade-python-idle
  • suse-upgrade-python-mpz
  • suse-upgrade-python-tk
  • suse-upgrade-python-x86
  • suse-upgrade-python-xml

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