Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting python-libs package, versions <0:2.7.5-34.el7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.31% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-PYTHONLIBS-2055176
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 19 May 2014
How to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7
python-libs
to version 0:2.7.5-34.el7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-libs
package and not the python-libs
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68119
- http://bugs.python.org/issue21529
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112285
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4616
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-10
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752395
- https://hackerone.com/reports/12297
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/24/7
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1064.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2101
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00015.html