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NumPy < 1.19 DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210054

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of NumPy installed on the remote host is prior to 1.19. It is, therefore, affected by a Buffer overflow vulnerability 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. The vendor does not agree this is a vulnerability; the negative dimensions can only be created by an already privileged user (or internally).

 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to NumPy version 1.19 or later.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210054

File Name: numpy_CVE-2021-41496.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Published: 11/1/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41496

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:numpy:numpy

Required KB Items: installed_sw/NumPy

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41496

CWE: 120