PublicDate: 2008-08-01 14:41:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2008-3142
References: 
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-632-1
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3142
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: kees
CVSS: 

Patches_python2.5:
 upstream: http://svn.python.org/view?rev=65261&view=rev
upstream_python2.5: released (2.5.2-10)
dapper_python2.5: DNE
feisty_python2.5: released (2.5.1-0ubuntu1.2)
gutsy_python2.5: released (2.5.1-5ubuntu5.2)
hardy_python2.5: released (2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1)
devel_python2.5: not-affected (2.5.2-10ubuntu1)


Patches_python2.4:
 upstream: http://svn.python.org/view?rev=65262&view=rev
upstream_python2.4: released (2.4.5-5)
dapper_python2.4: released (2.4.3-0ubuntu6.2)
feisty_python2.4: released (2.4.4-2ubuntu7.2)
gutsy_python2.4: released (2.4.4-6ubuntu4.2)
hardy_python2.4: released (2.4.5-1ubuntu4.1)
devel_python2.4: not-affected (2.4.5-5ubuntu1)