Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting tkinter package, versions <0:2.7.5-34.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TKINTER-4560970
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 May 2014

Introduced: 19 May 2014

CVE-2014-4616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tkinter to version 0:2.7.5-34.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:2101.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tkinter package and not the tkinter package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1