CVE-2021-41496

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41496
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-17 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** Buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj function of fortranobject.c in NumPy < 1.19, which allows attackers to conduct a Denial of Service attacks by carefully constructing an array with negative values. NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulnerability; the negative dimensions can only be created by an already privileged user (or internally).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Numpy Numpy All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Potential buffer-overflow from string operations in function array_from_pyobj of fortranobject.c · Issue #19000 · numpy/numpy · GitHub MISC github.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2022 N/A www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199066 Ubuntu Security Notification for NumPy Vulnerabilities (USN-5763-1)
  • 20270 Oracle Database 21c Critical Patch Update - October 2022
  • 240172 Red Hat Update for OpenStack Platform 16.2 (RHSA-2022:1000)
  • 240178 Red Hat Update for OpenStack Platform 16.1 (RHSA-2022:0987)
  • 296062 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 43.113.3 Missing (CPUJAN2022)
  • 671399 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1334)
  • 671416 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1357)
  • 671463 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1432)
  • 671464 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1453)
  • 671511 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1510)
  • 671544 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1491)
  • 671716 EulerOS Security Update for numpy (EulerOS-SA-2022-1749)
  • 751611 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-numpy (SUSE-SU-2022:0118-1)
  • 751632 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-numpy (openSUSE-SU-2022:0134-1)
  • 751958 OpenSUSE Security Update for python2-numpy (openSUSE-SU-2022:1064-1)
  • 752013 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-numpy (SUSE-SU-2022:0134-1)
  • 752368 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python2-numpy (SUSE-SU-2022:2441-1)
  • 752580 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python2-numpy (SUSE-SU-2022:1064-2)
  • 752679 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-numpy (SUSE-SU-2022:0134-3)
  • 753409 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python2-numpy (SUSE-SU-2022:1064-1)
  • 900382 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for numpy (7050)
  • 901946 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for numpy (7056-1)
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