Levenshtein: Remote Code Execution A vulnerability has been discovered in Levenshtein, which could lead to a remote code execution. Levenshtein 2024-08-07 2024-08-07 766009 remote 0.12.1 0.12.1

Levenshtein is a Python extension for computing string edit distances and similarities.

Fixed handling of numerous possible wraparounds in calculating the size of memory allocations; incorrect handling of which could cause denial of service or even possible remote code execution.

Fixed handling of numerous possible wraparounds in calculating the size of memory allocations; incorrect handling of which could cause denial of service or even possible remote code execution.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Levenshtein users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/Levenshtein-0.12.1" graaff graaff