Re: CVE Request - Python string expandtabs

["Chris Evans" <scarybeasts () gmail com>]

Adding in Will....

... yes, this sounds accurate. Searching through my mail, my colleague
Will found that the original expandtabs() fix was insufficient (thanks
for the catch Will!).

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov () redhat com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>  yesterday looked yet at the Python issues reported
> by Chris Evans at:
>
> http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-008.html
>
> and found out, the issue:
>
> * Integer overflow in string expandtabs operation
>
> *  PoC: s = 't\tt\t'
>        str.expandtabs(s, 2147483647)
>
>  still lacks its own separate CVE identifier.
>
>  Different issue than CVE-2008-2315.
>
>  Reasoning:
>  =========
>
>  Integer overflows in stringobject.c and unicodeobject.c
>  in Python 2.5.2 are part of CVE-2008-2315, but
>  part of CVE-2008-2315 is also mention about patch:
>
>  http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=159418&action=view
>
>  which by itself is not sufficient to resolve this flaw.
>
>  Upstream has applied the following patch:
>  =========================================
>
>  http://svn.python.org/view?rev=61350&view=rev
>
>  Have checked by above PoC that applying this patch
>  solves this vulnerability.
>
>  Affected Python versions: 2.2.3 <= x <= 2.5.1
>  =========================
>
> Chris, can you confirm my investigation?
>
> Steve, could you allocate a new CVE id?
>
> Thanks, Jan.
>
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team