CVE-2014-1912 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1912?

CVE-2014-1912 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 28 Feb 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1912?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Python Python.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1912?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-1912 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1912 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1912, GHSA-jhx7-j4rm-xpm8, PSF-2014-4.