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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2010-2089 EUVD-2010-2106GHSA-8428-fhph-pvrc

The audioop module in Python 2.7 and 3.2 does not verify the relationships between size arguments and byte string lengths, which allows con…

Published May 27, 2010 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: python2.7 Ecosystem: Debian

Description

The audioop module in Python 2.7 and 3.2 does not verify the relationships between size arguments and byte string lengths, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via crafted arguments, as demonstrated by a call to audioop.reverse with a one-byte string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1634.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 11 python2.7 2.7-1 —

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 5 python +4 2.4.3-43.el5 RHSA-2011:0027
RHEL 4 python +4 2.3.4-14.10.el4 RHSA-2011:0491

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Advisories 2

References