CVE-2013-7459

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a crafted iv parameter to cryptmsg.py.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-14

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RJ37R2YLX56YZABFNAOWV4VTHTGYREAE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6BWNADPLKDBBQBUT3P75W7HAJCE7M3B/

https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/176

https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/commit/8dbe0dc3eea5c689d4f76b37b93fe216cf1f00d4

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409754

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95122

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/27/8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3