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Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3-docutils  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-PYTHON3DOCUTILS-3212265
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed19 Jan 2021
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Introduced: 19 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-3177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Rocky-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Rocky-Linux:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-docutils package and not the python3-docutils package as distributed by Rocky-Linux.

Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf is used unsafely.

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