MGASA-2014-0286

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    MGASA-2014-0286

    Published: 8 Jul 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4616

    Summary: Updated python-simplejson package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: 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 as 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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0286.html, 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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-simplejson

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python-simplejson?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6.0-2.1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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