vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-5763-1 (CVE-2021-41496): NumPy vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Dec 17, 2021 | Dec 7, 2022 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 17, 2021
Added
Dec 7, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025
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
ubuntu-upgrade-python3-numpy
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