Advisories » MGASA-2014-0286

Updated python-simplejson package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jul 2014
Modification date: 08 Jul 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-4616

Description

Python 2 and 3 are susceptible to arbitrary process memory reading by a user
or adversary due to a bug in the _json module caused by insufficient bounds
checking. The bug is caused by allowing the user to supply a negative value
that is used an an array index, causing the scanstring function to access
process memory outside of the string it is intended to access
(CVE-2014-4616).

This issue also affected the python-simplejson package, which has been
patched to fix the bug.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13601
• http://bugs.python.org/issue21529
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/24/7
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134761.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4616

SRPMS

3/core

• python-simplejson-2.6.0-2.1.mga3

4/core

• python-simplejson-3.3.0-3.1.mga4