Bug 441306 (CVE-2008-1679)

Summary:	CVE-2008-1679 python: imageop module integer overflows
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	james.antill, jlieskov, kreilly, psplicha
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Bug Depends On:	486114, 486329, 486330, 537915
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-04-07 14:32:12 UTC

David Remahl of Apple reported, that the patch used to address multiple integer
overflows in python's imageop module (CVE-2007-4965) did not completely address
all overflow cases.

Additional test cases were provided as additional comment:

  http://bugs.python.org/msg64682

in upstream bug report used to track CVE-2007-4965:

  http://bugs.python.org/issue1179

Red Hat bug used to track CVE-2007-4965: bug #295971

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank David Remahl of the Apple Product Security team
for responsibly reporting these issues.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-04-08 06:41:03 UTC

Patch to address this issue in upstream bug report:

  http://bugs.python.org/file9975/python-2.5-int-overflow-2.patch

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-10-30 14:45:47 UTC

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw.  More information regarding
issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-07-27 09:35:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2009:1177 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1177.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-07-27 09:37:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2009:1178 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1178.html