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CVE-2014-7185

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in bufferobject.c in Python before 2.7.8 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a large size and offset in a "buffer" function.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.10.4
• Python: through 2.7.7; 2.7.1, 2.7.1-rc1, 2.7.2-rc1, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 (+3)

References

• http://bugs.python.org/issue21831
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139663.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00016.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1064.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1330.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/23/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/25/47
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70089
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146026

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