CVE-2008-4864 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2008-4864

Multiple integer overflows in imageop.c in the imageop module in...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple integer overflows in imageop.c in the imageop module in Python 1.5.2 through 2.5.1 allow context-dependent attackers to break out of the Python VM and execute arbitrary code via large integer values in certain arguments to the crop function, leading to a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4965 and CVE-2008-1679.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

python
Vulnerable Versions:
1.5.2, 2.5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 31st, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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