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CVE-2014-1912

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 28.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.10.4
• Python: 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.6, 2.5.150 (+44)

References

• http://bugs.python.org/issue20246
• http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/87673659d8f7
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00035.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00008.html
• http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=GHXSmNEg
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1064.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1330.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2880
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31875
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/12/16
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

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