CVE-2016-5636

Description

Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size value, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2586.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/15/15

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/16/1

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91247

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038138

http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPSV

http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPUE

https://bugs.python.org/issue26171

https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-4-5

https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-2

https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.12/Misc/NEWS

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00011.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-18

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3