vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2653-1 (CVE-2014-4616): Python vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 24, 2017
Added
Nov 8, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

Solutions

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