ALAS-2014-374

It was <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue21529"</a>reported</a> that Python built-in _json module have a flaw (insufficient bounds checking), which allows a local user to read current process' arbitrary memory.

Quoting the upstream bug report:

<i>The sole prerequisites of this attack are that the attacker is able to control or influence the two parameters of the default scanstring function: the string to be decoded and the index.

The bug is caused by allowing the user to supply a negative index value. The index value is then used directly as an index to an array in the C code; internally the address of the array and its index are added to each other in order to yield the address of the value that is desired. However, by supplying a negative index value and adding this to the address of the array, the processor's register value wraps around and the calculated value will point to a position in memory which isn't within the bounds of the supplied string, causing the function to access other parts of the process memory.</i>

i686:
    python-simplejson-debuginfo-3.5.3-1.7.amzn1.i686
    python-simplejson-3.5.3-1.7.amzn1.i686

src:
    python-simplejson-3.5.3-1.7.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    python-simplejson-debuginfo-3.5.3-1.7.amzn1.x86_64
    python-simplejson-3.5.3-1.7.amzn1.x86_64