PSF-2017-1

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    PSF-2017-1

    Published: 24 Aug 2017Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: JSONDecoder.raw_decode

    Details: Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-4616, https://bugs.python.org/issue21529

    Affected packages

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6c939cb6f6dfbd273609577b0022542d31ae2802

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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