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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3142
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44173 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44170 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html SLACKWARE http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31358 Secunia Advisory: SA31305 Secunia Advisory: SA31332 Secunia Advisory: SA31365 Secunia Advisory: SA31518 Secunia Advisory: SA31687 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243 http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900 http://bugs.python.org/issue2620 http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded BID 30491

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