Memory Corruption and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Python 3.1-3.3 UTF-16 Decoder

CVE-2012-2135 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via unspecified vectors.

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