CVE-2008-3144

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% 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 the PyOS_vsnprintf function in Python/mysnprintf.c in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact via crafted input to string formatting operations. NOTE: the handling of certain integer values is also affected by related integer underflows and an off-by-one error.

Affected products

Python: through 2.5.2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232137
http://bugs.python.org/issue2588
http://bugs.python.org/issue2589
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/31473
http://secunia.com/advisories/31518
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687

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