CVE-2008-3143 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Python before 2.5.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to (1) Include/pymem.h; (2) _csv.c (3) _struct.c (4) arraymodule.c (5) audioop.c (6) binascii.c (7) cPickle.c (8) cStringIO.c (9) cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c (10) datetimemodule.c (11) md5.c (12) rgbimgmodule.c and (13) stropmodule.c in Modules/; (14) bufferobject.c (15) listobject.c and (16) obmalloc.c in Objects/; (17) Parser/node.c; and (18) asdl.c (19) ast.c (20) bltinmodule.c and (21) compile.c in Python/ as addressed by \checks for integer overflows contributed by Google.\

Reference

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