Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1667-1 python2.4 -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 19 Nov 2008
- Affected Packages:
- python2.4
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2315, CVE-2008-3142, CVE-2008-3143, CVE-2008-3144.
- More information:
-
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Python language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2008-2315
David Remahl discovered several integer overflows in the stringobject, unicodeobject, bufferobject, longobject, tupleobject, stropmodule, gcmodule, and mmapmodule modules.
- CVE-2008-3142
Justin Ferguson discovered that incorrect memory allocation in the unicode_resize() function can lead to buffer overflows.
- CVE-2008-3143
Several integer overflows were discovered in various Python core modules.
- CVE-2008-3144
Several integer overflows were discovered in the PyOS_vsnprintf() function.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.4-3+etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) and the upcoming stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.5-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your python2.4 packages.
- CVE-2008-2315
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-examples_2.4.4-3+etch2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/idle-python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/idle-python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.4-3+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dev_2.4.4-3+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-dbg_2.4.4-3+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.4-3+etch2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.