| Name | CVE-2008-3142 |
| Description | Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; oss-sec, fulldisc, OSVDB, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, more) |
| References | DSA-1667-1, DTSA-157-1 |
| NVD severity | high (attack range: remote) |
| Debian/oldstable | not vulnerable. |
| Debian/stable | not known to be vulnerable. |
| Debian/testing | not known to be vulnerable. |
| Debian/unstable | not known to be vulnerable. |
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