Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting python package, versions [,2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
2.11% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317680
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed10 Oct 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2006

CVE-2006-4980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Buffer overflow in the repr function in Python 2.3 through 2.6 before 20060822 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted wide character UTF-32/UCS-4 strings to certain scripts.

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