Description: Piotr Engelking has reported a security issue in Python, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
The security issue is caused due to an off-by-one error within the "PyLocale_strxfrm()" function in Modules/_localemodule.c, which can be exploited to disclose certain parts of the memory.
The security issue is reported in Python 2.4 and 2.5. Other versions may also be affected.
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