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From: yzhu1 <Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Python: Fix for CVE-2012-2135
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 09:45:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C14A4A.9000703@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0Labvea6yuAHpHQbHDrnTgB7N8-hxAno4gHBZCADVxCMnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/06/2012 09:01 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 30 November 2012 04:30, yanjun.zhu <yanjun.zhu@windriver.com> wrote:
>> The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the
>> aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler
>> function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information
>> (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash)
>> via unspecified vectors.
> The source for the vulnurability says Python 3.1 to 3.3, but you're
> patching 2.7.  Is the source not considering the Python 2 releases, or
> is 2.7 safe from the exploit?
>
> Ross
I exploit it in Python 2.7. This CVE will affect Python2.7.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2012-11-30  4:30 ` [PATCH 1/1] Python: Fix for CVE-2012-2135 yanjun.zhu
2012-11-30  8:05   ` Saul Wold
2012-12-06 13:01   ` Burton, Ross
2012-12-07  1:45     ` yzhu1 [this message]
2012-11-30 10:47 ` yanjun.zhu
2012-11-30 11:02 ` yanjun.zhu
2012-11-30 11:23 ` yanjun.zhu
2012-11-30 11:29 ` yanjun.zhu
2012-11-30 18:54   ` [PATCH 1/1] Python: Fix for CVE-2012-2135 (for denzil) Saul Wold
2012-11-30 23:21     ` Scott Garman
2013-03-04  4:35 ` [PATCH 1/1] Python: Fix for CVE-2012-2135 yanjun.zhu
2013-03-04 10:46   ` Burton, Ross

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