Gentoo: 200409-03 High Severity: Python 2.2 DNS Buffer Overflow
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September 2, 2004
Python 2.2 has a vulnerability in DNS handling when IPV6 is disabled and a malformed IPV6 address is encountered by getaddrinfo().
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-03
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Python 2.2: Buffer overflow in getaddrinfo()
Date: September 02, 2004
Bugs: #62440
ID: 200409-03
Synopsis
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Python 2.2 has a vulnerability in DNS handling when IPV6 is disabled
and a malformed IPV6 address is encountered by getaddrinfo().
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform
programming language.
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1 dev-lang/python < 2.2.2 >= 2.2.2
< 2.2
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