Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2006-4980 to the following vulnerability: Buffer overflow in the repr function in Python 2.3 through 2.6 before 20060822 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted wide character UTF-32/UCS-4 strings to certain scripts. References: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/448244/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/456546/100/200/threaded http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1541585&group_id=5470&atid=305470 http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/python2.4-2.4.3_unicodeobject.c.diff https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/python2.4/+bug/56633 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208162 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-702 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-229.htm http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391589 http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/882/5120103_f.SAL_Public.html http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1197 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1198 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-07.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:181 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0713.html ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-359-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20376 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3940 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/5131 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017019 http://secunia.com/advisories/22276 http://secunia.com/advisories/22303 http://secunia.com/advisories/22357 http://secunia.com/advisories/22297 http://secunia.com/advisories/22358 http://secunia.com/advisories/22379 http://secunia.com/advisories/22448 http://secunia.com/advisories/22512 http://secunia.com/advisories/22531 http://secunia.com/advisories/22639 http://secunia.com/advisories/22487 http://secunia.com/advisories/23680 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29408
for patch and more details see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208162
This was addressed via: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2006:0713) Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2006:0713) Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.0 (RHEL v.4 AS) (RHSA-2008:0264) Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 4.2 (RHEL v.3 AS) (RHSA-2008:0525) Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 4.2 (RHEL v.4 AS) (RHSA-2008:0525) Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) (RHSA-2008:0629)