CVE-2021-32559

Summary

CVECVE-2021-32559
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-06 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-14 14:40:00 UTC
DescriptionAn integer overflow exists in pywin32 prior to version b301 when adding an access control entry (ACE) to an access control list (ACL) that would cause the size to be greater than 65535 bytes. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could crash the vulnerable process.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pywin32 Project Pywin32 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PyACL - Fixing integer overflows that occur when resizing ACLs by joshua-triplett-mandiant · Pull Request #1701 · mhammond/pywin32 · GitHub MISC github.com
Releases · mhammond/pywin32 · GitHub MISC github.com
Integer overflow in PyACL · Issue #1700 · mhammond/pywin32 · GitHub MISC github.com
Vulnerability-Disclosures/FEYE-2021-0017.md at master · fireeye/Vulnerability-Disclosures · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379545 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for March 2024 (SVD-2024-0303)
  • 981720 Python (pip) Security Update for pywin32 (GHSA-hwfp-hg2m-9vr2)
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