CVE-2006-4980
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 5.6%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the repr function in Python 2.3 through 2.6 before 20060822 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted wide character UTF-32/UCS-4 strings to certain scripts.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 5.6% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4966)
- Published
- October 10, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4966 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- python / python
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391589(Third Party Advisory)
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208162(Issue Tracking)
- http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/882/5120103_f.SAL_Public.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22276(Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22297(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22303(Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22357(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22358(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22379(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22448(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22487(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22512(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22531(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22639(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23680(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31492(Broken Link)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-07.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017019(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1541585&group_id=5470&atid=305470(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-229.htm(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1197(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1198(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:181(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0713.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0629.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448244/100/100/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456546/100/200/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20376(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-359-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3940(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5131(Broken Link)
- http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/python2.4-2.4.3_unicodeobject.c.diff(Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29408(Broken Link, VDB Entry)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-702(Third Party Advisory)
- https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/python2.4/+bug/56633(Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10789(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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