GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-5545-2q6w-2gh6 NumPy NULL Pointer Dereference
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-41495
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- numpy
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
- Reviewed
- 2022-06-21
Affected packages
• PyPI numpy: < 1.19 → fixed in 1.19
Description
Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy < and 1.19 in the PyArray_DescrNew function due to missing return-value validation, which allows attackers to conduct DoS attacks by repetitively creating sort arrays.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-41495 Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy < and 1.19 in the PyArray_DescrNew function due to missing… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41495 advisory
- https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/19038 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5545-2q6w-2gh6 advisory
- https://github.com/numpy/numpy package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/numpy/PYSEC-2021-856.yaml web
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html web