CVE-2007-1657: Buffer Overflow

First published: Sat Mar 24 2007(Updated: )

Stack-based buffer overflow in the file_compress function in minigzip (Modules/zlib) in Python 2.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file argument.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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