Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2007-1657

Description

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.

Affected products

Python Software Foundation/Python
cpe:2.3:a:python_software_foundation:python:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/22964nvdExploit
attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-March/001430.htmlnvd
osvdb.org/43550nvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462799/100/0/threadednvd

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