CVE-2021-41500

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-41500
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-17 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionIncomplete string comparison vulnerability exits in cvxopt.org cvxop <= 1.2.6 in APIs (cvxopt.cholmod.diag, cvxopt.cholmod.getfactor, cvxopt.cholmod.solve, cvxopt.cholmod.spsolve), which allows attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by construct fake Capsule objects.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-697

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cvxopt Project Cvxopt All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: python-cvxopt-1.2.7-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: python-cvxopt-1.2.7-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Incomplete comparison with function strncmp · Issue #193 · cvxopt/cvxopt · 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

  • 183152 Debian Security Update for cvxopt (CVE-2021-41500)
  • 282238 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2022-0b587f0fa9)

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