A vulnerability has been identified in Python, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "imageop" module when processing malformed arguments passed to a "tovideo()" function, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an application using the affected function or execute arbitrary code.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Slythers Bro.
ChangeLog
2007-09-19 : Initial release
2008-04-28 : Updated Solution
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