DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4616

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4616
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4616.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4616
Upstream
Published
2017-08-24T20:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:24Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Array index error in the scanstring function in the json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the rawdecode function.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / python2.7

Package

Name
python2.7
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python2.7?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}