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Python version 2.7 strop.replace() method suffers from an integer overflow that can be exploited to write outside the bounds of the string buffer and potentially achieve code execution. The issue can be triggered by performing a large substitution that overflows the arithmetic used in mymemreplace() to calculate the size of the new string.

Python version 2.7 strop.replace() method suffers from an integer overflow that can be exploited to write outside the bounds of the string buffer and potentially achieve code execution. The issue can be triggered by performing a large substitution that overflows the arithmetic used in mymemreplace() to calculate the size of the new string.