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CVE-2007-1657

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the file_compress function in minigzip (Modules/zlib) in Python 2.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file argument.

Affected products

• Python Software Foundation Python: 2.5

References

• http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-March/001430.html
• http://osvdb.org/43550
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462799/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22964
• http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-March/001430.html
• http://osvdb.org/43550
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462799/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22964

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