GHSA-5545-2q6w-2gh6

NumPy NULL Pointer Dereference

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-41495

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	numpy	< 1.19	1.19

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy &lt and 1.19 in the PyArray_DescrNew function due to missing return-value validation, which allows attackers to conduct DoS attacks by repetitively creating sort arrays.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41495 advisory
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/19038 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5545-2q6w-2gh6 advisory
https://github.com/numpy/numpy package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/numpy/PYSEC-2021-856.yaml web
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html web