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CVE-2008-5031

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2008-11-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Python Python

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References