Input validation error in Python - CVE-2010-1634

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows context-dependent attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large fragment, as demonstrated by a call to audioop.lin2lin with a long string in the first argument, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2010-1634

External References

• http://svn.python.org/view?rev=81045&view=rev
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39937
• http://svn.python.org/view?rev=81079&view=rev
• http://bugs.python.org/issue8674
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590690
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40370
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042751.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40194
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1448
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0122
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42888
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00006.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51040
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51024
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50858
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51087

Related Security Bulletins

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Python
• Gentoo update for Python
• Fedora EPEL 5 update for python26