Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : python2.3, python2.4 vulnerability (USN-359-1)

Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler discovered that Python's repr function did not properly handle UTF-32/UCS-4 strings. If an application uses repr on arbitrary untrusted data, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the python application. Note that Tenable Network Securi...