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CVE-2008-1721

CVE-2008-1721

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 23%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDApr 10
1st PoCApr 9
exploitation probability
23%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Integer signedness error in the zlib extension module in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative signed integer, which triggers insufficient memory allocation and a buffer overflow.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/31634
⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://bugs.python.org/issue2586http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29889http://secunia.com/advisories/29955http://secunia.com/advisories/30872http://secunia.com/advisories/31255http://secunia.com/advisories/31358http://secunia.com/advisories/31365http://secunia.com/advisories/33937http://secunia.com/advisories/37471http://secunia.com/advisories/38675http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-01.xml