7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-1657

Published: 24/03/2007 Updated: 16/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the file_compress function in minigzip (Modules/zlib) in Python 2.5 allows context-dependent malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a long file argument.

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python software foundation python 2.5

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/22964/info The 'minigzip' tool is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected applic ...