Python priority denial of service vulnerability

Python is a suite of open source, object-oriented programming languages from the Python Software Foundation. json is one of the modules that provides a lightweight format for exchanging data. priority is one of the modules used to implement ordering. A denial of service vulnerability exists in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python on 7.x i686/x86_64 (2015:2101)

The remote Scientific Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SLSA-2015:2101-1 advisory. - The gzipdecode function in the xmlrpc client library in Python 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory...

python: missing boundary check in JSON module

A flaw was found in the way the json module handled negative index argument passed to certain functions such as rawdecode. An attacker able to control index value passed to one of the affected functions could possibly use this flaw to disclose portions of the application memory...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

USN-2653-1 python2.7, python3.2, python3.4 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that multiple Python protocol libraries incorrectly limited certain data when connecting to servers. A malicious ftp, http, imap, nntp, pop or smtp server could use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2013-1752 It was discovered that the Python xmlrpc library did not...

python: missing boundary check in JSON module

A flaw was found in the way the json module handled negative index argument passed to certain functions such as rawdecode. An attacker able to control index value passed to one of the affected functions could possibly use this flaw to disclose portions of the application memory...

Medium: python27

Issue Overview: It was reported http://bugs.python.org/issue21529 that Python built-in json module have a flaw insufficient bounds checking, which allows a local user to read current process' arbitrary memory. Quoting the upstream bug report: The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the...

openSUSE Security Update : python / python3 (openSUSE-SU-2014:0890-1)

python and python3 were updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - Missing boundary check in JSON module CVE-2014-4616 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update...

[oss-security] CVE request: python: _json module is vulnerable to arbitrary process memory read

Hello, It was reported 1 that Python built-in json module have a flaw insufficient bounds checking, which allows a local user to read current process' arbitrary memory. From initial bug report 1: ... The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the attacker is able to control or influence the t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4616

Array index error in the scanstring function in the json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the rawdecode function...