PT-2012-3828 · Python+1 · Python+1

Serhiy Storchaka · Published 2012-08-14 · Updated 2023-01-19 · CVE-2012-2135

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Python versions 3.1 through 3.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, such as process memory, or cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and crash, via unspecified vectors. This is due to the utf-16 decoder not updating the aligned end variable after calling the unicode decode call errorhandler function.

Recommendations For Python versions 3.1 through 3.3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1294

CVE-2012-2135

PSF-2012-6

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Python

References · 38

• 🔥 https://github.com/bunseokbot/CVE-2016-5699-poc · Exploit
• http://bugs.python.org/issue14579 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2135 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00666 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1753 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7440 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9365 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4650 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PSF-2012-6 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1615-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1912 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5699 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2099 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7040 · Security Note