Out-of-Bounds Affecting python package, versions [,2.7.7)[3.3.0, 3.3.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
38.99% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317700
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed1 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-1912  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 2.7.7, 3.3.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1