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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3142
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-3142

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44173
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44170

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html

SLACKWARE
  http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA33937
  Secunia Advisory: SA31473
  Secunia Advisory: SA31687
  Secunia Advisory: SA31518
  Secunia Advisory: SA31365
  Secunia Advisory: SA31332
  Secunia Advisory: SA31305
  Secunia Advisory: SA31358
  Secunia Advisory: SA37471
  Secunia Advisory: SA32793

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8422
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11466

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667

CONFIRM
  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243
  http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
  http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900
  http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt
  http://bugs.python.org/issue2620
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded

BID
  30491

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html


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