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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-2052 Detail

Description

Off-by-one error in the PyLocale_strxfrm function in Modules/_localemodule.c for Python 2.4 and 2.5 causes an incorrect buffer size to be used for the strxfrm function, which allows context-dependent attackers to read portions of memory via unknown manipulations that trigger a buffer over-read due to missing null termination.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/19/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235093 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416934 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000005.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25190 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25217 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25233 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25353 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25787 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28027 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28050 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29032 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29303 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29889 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31255 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31492 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1551 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1620 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:099 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_13_sr.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.1/NEWS.txt CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1076.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1077.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0629.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469294/30/6450/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488457/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23887 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0019/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-585-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1465 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0637 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235093 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34060 CVE, MITRE VDB Entry 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1358 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11716 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8353 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-193 Off-by-one Error cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-2052
NVD Published Date:
04/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE