CVE-2021-41496

medium

Description

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)

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-july-2022-critical-patch-update-addresses-188-cves

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/19000

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-17

Updated: 2024-08-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium