CVE-2008-2315

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to the (1) stringobject, (2) unicodeobject, (3) bufferobject, (4) longobject, (5) tupleobject, (6) stropmodule, (7) gcmodule, and (8) mmapmodule modules. NOTE: The expandtabs integer overflows in stringobject and unicodeobject in 2.5.2 are covered by CVE-2008-5031.

Affected products

Python: through 2.5.2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=159418&action=view
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230640
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31305
http://secunia.com/advisories/31332
http://secunia.com/advisories/31358
http://secunia.com/advisories/31365
http://secunia.com/advisories/31518
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/32793
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937

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