ALPINE-CVE-2014-4616

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2014-4616
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2014-4616.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2014-4616
Upstream
Published
2017-08-24T20:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-27T12:17:45Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.4 / python

Package

Name
python
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/python?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.7.0
Fixed
2.7.7-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2014-4616.json"

Alpine:v3.5 / python2

Package

Name
python2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/python2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.7-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2014-4616.json"

Alpine:v3.6 / python2

Package

Name
python2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/python2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.7-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2014-4616.json"