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CVE-2016-5636
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-02T14:59:06.003 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:48.040

Summary

Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size value, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

python — python

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