VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2008-2315

HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.38%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to the (1) stringobject, (2) unicodeobject, (3) bufferobject, (4) longobject, (5) tupleobject, (6) stropmodule, (7) gcmodule, and (8) mmapmodule modules. NOTE: The expandtabs integer overflows in stringobject and unicodeobject in 2.5.2 are covered by CVE-2008-5031.

CVSS 2.0: 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS: 4.38% probability · 91th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-190
Affected: python/python
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=159418&action=viewExploit
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230640Third Party Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlMailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31305Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31332Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31358Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31365Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31518Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/32793Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/38675Broken Link
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.525289Third Party Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438Third Party Advisory
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100074697Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:163Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:164Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5032900Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/2Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/3Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30491Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-632-1Third Party Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2288Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316Broken Link, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.