PSF-2017-1

vendorUSosv

JSONDecoder.raw_decode

view advisory published 2017-08-24Licence: per source

Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2014-4616US	medium5.9	7.85% (95th)	—	2017-08-24
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-4616ADVISORY
https://bugs.python.org/issue21529REPORT

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