CVE-2008-4864 (GCVE-0-2008-4864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:31
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Summary
Multiple integer overflows in imageop.c in the imageop module in Python 1.5.2 through 2.5.1 allow context-dependent attackers to break out of the Python VM and execute arbitrary code via large integer values in certain arguments to the crop function, leading to a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4965 and CVE-2008-1679.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2008-10-27 00:00
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