Debian Security Advisory
DSA-821-1 python2.3 -- integer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 28 Sep 2005
- Affected Packages:
- python2.3
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 324531.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14620.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2491. - More information:
-
An integer overflow with a subsequent buffer overflow has been detected in PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, and is also present in Python. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to specify the used regular expression.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain python2.3 packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.5-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.5-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your python2.3 packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/idle-python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-doc_2.3.5-3sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-examples_2.3.5-3sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-doc_2.3.5-3sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-gdbm_2.3.5-3sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-mpz_2.3.5-3sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-tk_2.3.5-3sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.3/python2.3-dev_2.3.5-3sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.