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Out-of-Bounds Affecting python2.7 package, versions <2.7.7-1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.31% (70th percentile)
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NVD
5.9 medium
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Red Hat
4.8 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-PYTHON27-306468
  • published 24 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 24 Aug 2017
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Introduced: 24 Aug 2017

CVE-2014-4616 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 python2.7 to version 2.7.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2.7 package and not the python2.7 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 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.