### [CVE-2008-3142](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3142)
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### Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Python 2.5.2 and earlier on 32bit platforms allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a long string that leads to incorrect memory allocation during Unicode string processing, related to the unicode_resize function and the PyMem_RESIZE macro.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/mudongliang/LinuxFlaw
- https://github.com/oneoy/cve-