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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36242: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36242: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/07/2021
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

In the cryptography package before 3.3.2 for Python, certain sequences of update calls to symmetrically encrypt multi-GB values could result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow, as demonstrated by the Fernet class.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-cryptography

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