Upstream information
Description
The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end variable after calling the unicode_decode_call_errorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (process memory) or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via unspecified vectors.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 758993 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:0861-1, published Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:08:48 +0200 (CEST)