UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33430

* DISPUTED * A Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in NumPy 1.9.x in the PyArrayNewFromDescrint function of ctors.c when specifying arrays of large dimensions (over 32) from Python code, which could let a malicious user cause a Denial of Service. NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulneraility; In (very limited) circumstances a user may be able provoke the buffer overflow, the user is most likely already privileged to at least provoke denial of service by exhausting memory. Triggering this further requires the use of uncommon API (complicated structured dtypes), which is very unlikely to be available to an unprivileged user.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / numpy

Package

Name: numpy
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/numpy@1:1.17.4-5ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:1.17.4-5ubuntu3.1

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.17.3-0ubuntu2

1:1.17.4-3ubuntu1

1:1.17.4-3ubuntu2

1:1.17.4-5ubuntu2

1:1.17.4-5ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific

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        },
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            "binary_name": "python3-numpy"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:1.17.4-5ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "python3-numpy-dbg"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
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