CVE-2008-3144

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-08-01
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the PyOS_vsnprintf function in Python/mysnprintf.c in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact via crafted input to string formatting operations. NOTE: the handling of certain integer values is also affected by related integer underflows and an off-by-one error.

See more information about CVE-2008-3144 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (python)	ELSA-2009-1177	2009-07-27
Oracle Linux version 5 (python)	ELSA-2009-1176	2009-07-27