CVE-2012-2135

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.

Date published : 2012-08-14

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670389

http://bugs.python.org/issue14579