vendor:
Python
by:
Unknown
7,5
CVSS
HIGH
Heap Memory Corruption
119
CWE
Product Name: Python
Affected Version From: All
Affected Version To: All
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: a:python:python
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 EN (32bit)
2014
Python Interpreter Heap Memory Corruption
Recentl a new fix has been pushed to official python source code repository which fixes a memory corruption vulnerability in python interpreter's strop module. The vulnerability lies in expandtabs() functions. This is due to a missing check in line 626,627 of /Modules/stropmodule.c.
Mitigation:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the official python source code repository (http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5dabc2d2f776)
