CVE-2021-40839

Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40839

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40839.json

Aliases

• GHSA-gh8j-2pgf-x458
• PYSEC-2021-345

Published

2021-09-10T02:15:07Z

Modified

2023-11-29T09:02:16.589551Z

Details

The rencode package through 1.0.6 for Python allows an infinite loop in typecode decoding (such as via ;\x2f\x7f), enabling a remote attack that consumes CPU and memory.

References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211008-0001/
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/16
• https://github.com/aresch/rencode/commit/572ff74586d9b1daab904c6f7f7009ce0143bb75
• https://github.com/aresch/rencode/pull/29
• https://pypi.org/project/rencode/#history
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMVQRPDVSVZNGGX57CFKCYT3DEYO4QB6/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MCLETLGVM5DBX6QNHQFW6TWGO5T3DENY/