CVE-2008-4864

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 21.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in imageop.c in the imageop module in Python 1.5.2 through 2.5.1 allow context-dependent attackers to break out of the Python VM and execute arbitrary code via large integer values in certain arguments to the crop function, leading to a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4965 and CVE-2008-1679.

Affected products

Python: from 1.5.2 before 2.4.6; from 2.5.0 before 2.5.3 — fixed in 2.4.6, 2.5.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Python 2.4.6, 2.5.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-008.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/imageop.c?rev=66689&view=diff&r1=66689&r2=66688&p1=python/trunk/Modules/imageop.c&p2=/python/trunk/Modules/imageop.c
http://svn.python.org/view?rev=66689&view=rev
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/27/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31932
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31976

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