7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
An integer overflow with a subsequent buffer overflow has been detected
in PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, which allows
an attacker to execute arbitrary code, and is also present in Python.
Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to specify the used
regular expression.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.3-3.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.3dfsg-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.3dfsg-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your python2.1 packages.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
python2.1 | eq | 2.1.3dfsg-1 |