A vulnerability has been identified in Python, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow errror in the zlib extension when handling negative signed integers, which could be exploited to trigger insufficient memory allocation and a buffer overflow, leading to arbitrary code execution.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Justin Ferguson.
ChangeLog
2008-04-16 : Initial release
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