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python: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):python CVE #(s):CVE-2010-1634 CVE-2010-2089 CVE-2008-5983
Created:June 14, 2010 Updated:October 25, 2012
Description: From the CVE entries:

Multiple integer overflows in audioop.c in the audioop module in Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, and 3.2 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large fragment, as demonstrated by a call to audioop.lin2lin with a long string in the first argument, leading to a buffer overflow. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3143.5. (CVE-2010-1634)

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. (CVE-2010-2089)

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory. (CVE-2008-5983)

Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2011:0491 2011-05-05
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0491-01 2011-05-05
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:002 2011-01-25
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:024 2010-12-23
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0027-01 2011-01-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2010:1049-1 2010-12-13
Fedora FEDORA-2010-13388 2010-08-23
MeeGo MeeGo-SA-10:16 2010-08-03
Fedora FEDORA-2010-9652 2010-06-07
Fedora FEDORA-2010-9565 2010-06-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:132 2010-07-14
Pardus 2010-76 2010-06-15
Ubuntu USN-1596-1 2012-10-04
Ubuntu USN-1613-2 2012-10-17
Ubuntu USN-1613-1 2012-10-17
Ubuntu USN-1616-1 2012-10-24

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