Numeric Errors Affecting python2.7 package, versions <2.7.8-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.88% (89th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-PYTHON27-306496
- published 8 Oct 2014
- disclosed 8 Oct 2014
Introduced: 8 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-7185 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
python2.7
to version 2.7.8-1 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.
Integer overflow in bufferobject.c in Python before 2.7.8 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a large size and offset in a "buffer" function.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7185
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://bugs.python.org/issue21831
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139663.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-10
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00016.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/23/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/25/47
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146026
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1064.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1330.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70089
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-7185
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96193