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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:35:35 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: "oss >> \"oss-security@...ts.openwall.com\"" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request: Python 3.2/3.3 utf-16 decoder unicode_decode_call_errorhandler
 aligned_end is not updated

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Python 3.2/3.3 utf-16 decoder unicode_decode_call_errorhandler
aligned_end is not updated

does not appear to affect Python 2.x

memory leak/crashes/etc.

http://bugs.python.org/issue14579

Author: Serhiy Storchaka (storchaka) 	Date: 2012-04-14 18:46

In the utf-16 decoder after calling unicode_decode_call_errorhandler
aligned_end is not updated. This may potentially cause data leaks,
memory damage, and crash. The bug introduced by implementation of the
issue #4868. In a similar situation in the utf-8 decoder aligned_end
is updated.

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More discussion and links to the patches/etc. in the bug.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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