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CVE-2008-3143

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-08-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Python before 2.5.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to (1) Include/pymem.h; (2) _csv.c, (3) _struct.c, (4) arraymodule.c, (5) audioop.c, (6) binascii.c, (7) cPickle.c, (8) cStringIO.c, (9) cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c, (10) datetimemodule.c, (11) md5.c, (12) rgbimgmodule.c, and (13) stropmodule.c in Modules/; (14) bufferobject.c, (15) listobject.c, and (16) obmalloc.c in Objects/; (17) Parser/node.c; and (18) asdl.c, (19) ast.c, (20) bltinmodule.c, and (21) compile.c in Python/, as addressed by "checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google."

Affected products

• Python: before 2.5.12 — fixed in 2.5.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Python 2.5.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31332
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31365
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31473
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31518
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32793
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37471
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-16.xml
• http://svn.python.org/view?rev=60793&view=rev
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0243

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