vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2013-7459)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in pycrypto leading to arbitrary code execution. All users of pycrypto's AES module that allow the mode of operation to be specified by an attacker, check for ECB explicitly and create the objects without specifying an IV are vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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