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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:37:53 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Python 3.2/3.3 utf-16 decoder unicode_decode_call_errorhandler
 aligned_end is not updated

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On 04/25/2012 12:35 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ========
> 
> More discussion and links to the patches/etc. in the bug.
> 

Please use CVE-2012-2135 for this issue.

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

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