CVE-2014-1912

Public on 2014-02-26
Modified on 2014-09-16
Description
It was discovered that the socket.recvfrom_into() function failed to check the size of the supplied buffer. This could lead to a buffer overflow when the function was called with an insufficiently sized buffer.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 python26 2014-02-26 ALAS-2014-292 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 python27 2014-02-26 ALAS-2014-293 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P