VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-7185

medium
Published 2014-10-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
bullseye Fixed 2.7.8-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
python pythonpython{"endIncluding":"2.7.7"}
python pythonpython2.7.1
python pythonpython2.7.2
python pythonpython2.7.3
python pythonpython2.7.4
python pythonpython2.7.5
python pythonpython2.7.6
python pythonpython2.7.1150
python pythonpython2.7.2150

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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