Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python2.7 (opens in a new tab)
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- published24 Aug 2017
- disclosed24 Aug 2017
Introduced: 24 Aug 2017
CVE-2014-4616 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2.7 package and not the python2.7 package as distributed by Debian.
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4616
- http://bugs.python.org/issue21529
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4616
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752395
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-10
- https://hackerone.com/reports/12297
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00015.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/24/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112285
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1064.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68119
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-4616