CVE-2014-1912

It was discovered that the socket.recvfrom_into() function failed to check the size of the supplied buffer. This could lead to a buffer overflow when the function was called with an insufficiently sized buffer.

This issue did not affect the versions of python as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include the vulnerable socket.recvfrom_into() function. This issue was also corrected in the version of python shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 prior to release.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue in Red Hat Software Collections. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.