CVE-2008-2316

Summary

CVECVE-2008-2316
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-08-01 14:41:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-02 18:52:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in _hashopenssl.c in the hashlib module in Python 2.5.2 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic digests, related to "partial hashlib hashing of data exceeding 4GB."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Python All All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 1.5.2 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 1.6.1 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.0.1 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.1.3 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.2.3 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.3.7 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.4.5 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.5.1 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.5.2 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 1.5.2 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 1.6.1 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.0.1 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.1.3 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.2.3 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.3.7 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.4.5 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.5.1 All All All
Application Python Software Foundation Python 2.5.2 All All All

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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-08-04Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of python as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5. Affected module was only introduced upstream in python 2.5.
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