CVE-2016-5636

critical
Published 2016-09-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size value, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5636

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5636.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.12/Misc/NEWS

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-5-2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-4-5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugs.python.org/issue26171

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.12~rc1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
python pythonpython3.0
python pythonpython3.0.1
python pythonpython3.1.0
python pythonpython3.1.1
python pythonpython3.1.2
python pythonpython3.1.3
python pythonpython3.1.4
python pythonpython3.1.5
python pythonpython3.2.0
python pythonpython3.2.1
python pythonpython3.2.2
python pythonpython3.2.3
python pythonpython3.2.4
python pythonpython3.2.5
python pythonpython3.2.6
python pythonpython3.3.0
python pythonpython3.3.1
python pythonpython3.3.2
python pythonpython3.3.3
python pythonpython3.3.4
python pythonpython3.3.5
python pythonpython3.3.6
python pythonpython3.4.0
python pythonpython3.4.1
python pythonpython3.4.2
python pythonpython3.4.3
python pythonpython3.4.4
python pythonpython{"endIncluding":"2.7.11"}
python pythonpython3.5.0
python pythonpython3.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.