| Package | python2.7 |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.7.3-6+deb7u8 |
| Related CVEs | CVE-2013-1753 CVE-2014-4616 CVE-2014-4650 CVE-2014-7185 CVE-2019-16056 |
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python, an interactive high-level object-oriented language.
CVE-2019-16056
The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain
multiple @ characters. An application that uses the email module and
implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a message
could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be
denied.
CVE-2013-1753
A denial of service (resource exhaustion, excessive memory
consumption) can be triggered in the xmlrpc library by a specially
crafted HTTP request.
CVE-2014-4616
An attacker is able to read arbitrary process memory by a specially
crafted JSON string.
CVE-2014-4650
Information disclosure or arbirtary code execution is possible via a
specially crafted URL because of improper handling of URL-encoded
path separators in the CGIHTTPServer module.
CVE-2014-7185
A context-dependent attacker can take advantage of an integer
overflow to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a
large size and offset in a "buffer" function.
For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.3-6+deb7u8.
We recommend that you upgrade your python2.7 packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.