CVE-2007-1657 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the file_compress function in minigzip (Modules/zlib) in Python 2.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file argument.

Reference

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-March/001430.html http://osvdb.org/43550 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462799/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22964