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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000158: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/23/2018
Modified
06/20/2021

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)

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_6-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_6-1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_6-1_0-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_7-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython2_7-1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_4m1_0
  • suse-upgrade-libpython3_4m1_0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python
  • suse-upgrade-python-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python-base
  • suse-upgrade-python-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-python-base-x86
  • 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-tk
  • suse-upgrade-python-x86
  • suse-upgrade-python-xml
  • suse-upgrade-python3
  • suse-upgrade-python3-base
  • suse-upgrade-python3-curses
  • suse-upgrade-python3-dbm
  • suse-upgrade-python3-devel
  • suse-upgrade-python3-tk

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:0768-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1372-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:0234-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:0497-1
  • DSA-4307
  • CVE-2017-1000158
  • USN-3496-1
  • USN-3496-2
  • USN-3496-3
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