CVE-2014-1912: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 28.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.4
• Python Python: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only; version 2.5.3 only; version 2.5.4 only; version 2.5.6 only; version 2.5.150 only; …

Published 2014-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.