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CVE-2012-2135

Published: Aug 14, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via unspecified vectors.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://bugs.python.org/issue14579

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third-party-advisory

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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670389

x_refsource_MISC

[oss-security] 20120425 Re: CVE Request: Python 3.2/3.3 utf-16 decoder unicode_decode_call_errorhandler aligned_end is not updated

mailing-list

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[oss-security] 20120425 CVE Request: Python 3.2/3.3 utf-16 decoder unicode_decode_call_errorhandler aligned_end is not updated

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

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