Security Advisory

CVE-2006-4980

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-10-09 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 19:32:22
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the repr function in Python 2.3 through 2.6 before 20060822 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted wide character UTF-32/UCS-4 strings to certain scripts.