Buffer overflow in Python - CVE-2008-3142
Published: July 5, 2022 / Updated: June 3, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110161
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-3142
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro.
Affected software
Python
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/python
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/python
How to mitigate CVE-2008-3142
Install update from vendor's website.
dev-lang/python - update to 2.5.2-r6
External References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137
- http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt
- http://bugs.python.org/issue2620
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31365
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31518
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31358
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31305
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31332
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31473
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32793
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44173
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44170
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8422
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11466
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded