CVE-2007-2052

Summary

CVECVE-2007-2052
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-04-16 22:19:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-02 18:04:00 UTC
DescriptionOff-by-one error in the PyLocale_strxfrm function in Modules/_localemodule.c for Python 2.4 and 2.5 causes an incorrect buffer size to be used for the strxfrm function, which allows context-dependent attackers to read portions of memory via unknown manipulations that trigger a buffer over-read due to missing null termination.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-193

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Python 2.4.0 All All All
Application Python Python 2.5.0 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.4 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.5 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.4 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
VMware ESX Server Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[Security-announce] VMSA-2008-0003 Moderate: Updated aacraid driver and samba and python service console updates MLIST lists.vmware.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
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Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Welcome to Python.org CONFIRM www.python.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1620-1 python2.5 DEBIAN www.debian.org
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Python PyLocale_strxfrm Function Remote Information Leak Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
2007-0019 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
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issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1358 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
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#416934 - python2.5: off-by-one bug in strxfrm() (causes information leak) - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
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235093 – (CVE-2007-2052) CVE-2007-2052 python off-by-one locale.strxfrm() (possible memory disclosure) CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-04-19Joshua BressersRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235093 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/
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