CVE-2014-4616

A flaw was found in the way the json module handled negative index argument passed to certain functions (such as raw_decode()). An attacker able to control index value passed to one of the affected functions could possibly use this flaw to disclose portions of the application memory.

This issue affects the versions of python as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the versions of python-simplejson as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, and the versions of python33-python and python33-python-simplejson as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. Future updates may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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