Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting cpython package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.94% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPYTHON-10075423
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed1 Aug 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Aug 2008

CVE-2008-2316  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cpython.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Integer overflow in _hashopenssl.c in the hashlib module in Python 2.5.2 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic digests, related to "partial hashlib hashing of data exceeding 4GB."

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