CVE-2016-7420

Description

Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 5.6.4 does not document the requirement for a compile-time NDEBUG definition disabling the many assert calls that are unintended in production use, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to process memory after an assertion failure, as demonstrated by reading a core dump.

References

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/277

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/commit/553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92988

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/12

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3