Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler reports:
I discovered a [buffer overrun in repr() for unicode strings]. This causes an unpatched non-debug wide (UTF-32/UCS-4) build of python to abort. [source]
I discovered a [buffer overrun in repr() for unicode strings]. This causes an unpatched non-debug wide (UTF-32/UCS-4) build of python to abort.
Ubuntu security team reports:
If an application uses repr() on arbitrary untrusted data, this [bug] could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the python application. [source]
If an application uses repr() on arbitrary untrusted data, this [bug] could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the python application.
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