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CVE-2008-3144

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-08-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the PyOS_vsnprintf function in Python/mysnprintf.c in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact via crafted input to string formatting operations. NOTE: the handling of certain integer values is also affected by related integer underflows and an off-by-one error.

Affected Platforms

Python Python

Weakness Type

CWE-190

References