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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-41496

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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)

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 numpy

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Debian:13 numpy

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Debian:14 numpy

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References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org