fkie_cve-2006-4980
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2006-10-10 04:06
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in the repr function in Python 2.3 through 2.6 before 20060822 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted wide character UTF-32/UCS-4 strings to certain scripts.
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