CVE-2012-2135

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

14/08/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via unspecified vectors.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

6.40

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	2.7.0 (including)	2.7.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.2.0 (including)	3.2.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.3.0 (including)	3.3.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04::::-:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::-:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:::::::*

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CVE-2012-2135

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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