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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-41496: numpy security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-41496: numpy security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/17/2021
Created
03/30/2022
Added
03/29/2022
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Buffer overflow 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. NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulnerability; the negative dimensions can only be created by an already privileged user (or internally)

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python2-numpy
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python2-numpy-f2py
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-numpy
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-numpy-f2py

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