Bug 208162 - CVE-2006-4980 repr unicode buffer overflow
Summary: CVE-2006-4980 repr unicode buffer overflow
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: python
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Mihai Ibanescu
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,source=vendorsec,rep...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2006-4980
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Reported: 2006-09-26 18:10 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2008-01-29 09:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0713
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-10-09 21:54:32 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Upstream patch (2.01 KB, patch)
2006-09-26 19:00 UTC, Josh Bressers
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0713 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE Important: python security update 2006-10-09 21:54:04 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2006-09-26 18:10:30 UTC
A bug in the way python's repr function handles certain unicode objects.  repr
mistakenly assumes that all unicode characters will be 6 characters in length
(UTF-16) when it is possible for some strings to use wide characters (UTF-32) to
overflow a buffer.

There is more information in the Ubuntu bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/python2.4/+bug/56633

and the upstream bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?aid=1541585&group_id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-09-26 18:13:04 UTC
This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2006-09-26 19:00:42 UTC
Created attachment 137161 [details]
Upstream patch

Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-10-09 21:54:34 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0713.html



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