VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2021-33430

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Published 2022-01-07 · Modified 2023-11-08
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CVSS v3
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
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Description

A Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in NumPy 1.9.x in the PyArray_NewFromDescr_int function of ctors.c when specifying arrays of large dimensions (over 32) from Python code, which could let a malicious user cause a Denial of Service. NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulneraility; In (very limited) circumstances a user may be able provoke the buffer overflow, the user is most likely already privileged to at least provoke denial of service by exhausting memory. Triggering this further requires the use of uncommon API (complicated structured dtypes), which is very unlikely to be available to an unprivileged user

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:1.21.4-2
sid Fixed 1:1.21.4-2
forky Fixed 1:1.21.4-2
bullseye Affected —
bookworm Fixed 1:1.21.4-2

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPInumpy>=1.9.0,<1.211.21
python PyPInumpy>=1.9.0,<1.10.01.10.0

References

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