NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting numpy package, versions [0,1.22.2)


0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    Attack Complexity High
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NVD
5.3 medium
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SUSE
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-NUMPY-2321964
  • published 19 Dec 2021
  • disclosed 19 Dec 2021
  • credit Daybreak2019

How to fix?

Upgrade numpy to version 1.22.2 or higher.

Overview

numpy is a fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference due to missing return-value validation in the PyArray_DescrNew function, which may allow attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by repetitively creating and sort arrays.

Note: This may likely only happen if application memory is already exhausted, as it requires the newdescr object of the PyArray_DescrNew to evaluate to NULL.