Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting python package, versions [,2.7.12)[3.4,3.4.5)[3.5,3.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.61% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317679
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5636  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 2.7.12, 3.4.5, 3.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size value, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1