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CVE-2016-5636

Public on 2016-07-20
Modified on 2016-07-20
Description

A vulnerability was discovered in Python, in the built-in zipimporter. A specially crafted zip file placed in a module path such that it would be loaded by a later "import" statement could cause a heap overflow, leading to arbitrary code execution.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 python26 2016-07-20 18:00 ALAS-2016-724
Amazon Linux 1 python27 2016-07-20 18:00 ALAS-2016-724
Amazon Linux 1 python34 2016-07-20 18:00 ALAS-2016-724

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H