PT-2017-5761

CVE-2013-7459

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Published

2017-01-16

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Updated

2026-01-17

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) (affected versions not specified)
Description: The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block templace.c. This can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, for example, by using a crafted iv parameter.
Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Related identifiers
CVE-2013-7459
GHSA-CQ27-V7XP-C356
DLA-773-1
MGASA-2017-0032
OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0156-1
PYSEC-2017-94
SUSE-SU-2017:1744-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2350-1
SUSE-SU-2017_2350-1
USN-3199-1
USN-3199-2
USN-3199-3
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