{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-04-11T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "python: Multiple buffer overflows in unicode processing",
    "id" : "454990",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454990"
  },
  "details" : [ "Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2009-07-27T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1178",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "python-0:2.2.3-6.11"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-07-27T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1177",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "python-0:2.3.4-14.7.el4_8.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-07-27T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1176",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "python-0:2.4.3-24.el5_3.6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3142\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3142" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-3142",
  "csaw" : false
}