PSF-2023-10

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    PSF-2023-10

    Published: 22 Aug 2023Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025

    Summary: DoS when reading malformed Apple Property List files in binary format

    Details: read_ints in plistlib.py in Python through 3.9.1 is vulnerable to a potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.

    References: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48564, https://bugs.python.org/issue42103, https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22882

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -34637a0ce21e7261b952fbd9d006474cc29b681f

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    PSF-2023-10 | CVE-DB