CVE-2008-3142

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 1, 2008
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2008-3142: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix