CVE-2008-3142
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.5%EU EUVD
Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-120
- EPSS score
- 4.5% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3132)
- Published
- August 1, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3132 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- python / python
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- http://bugs.python.org/issue2620(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31305(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31332(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31358(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31365(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31473(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31518(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32793(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471(Not Applicable)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438(Third Party Advisory)
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163(Broken Link)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164(Broken Link)
- http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495445/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288(Permissions Required)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316(Permissions Required)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44170(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44173(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11466(Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8422(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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