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CVE-2008-3142

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2008-08-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro.

Affected Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxPython PythonCanonical Ubuntu Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-120

References