CVE-2006-4980

Description

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.

References

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/python2.4/+bug/56633

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-702

http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/python2.4-2.4.3_unicodeobject.c.diff

http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-359-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20376

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456546/100/200/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448244/100/100/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0629.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0713.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1198

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1197

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-229.htm

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1541585&group_id=5470&atid=305470

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017019

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-07.xml

http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/882/5120103_f.SAL_Public.html

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208162

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391589

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3