CVE-2021-41495

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…

published December 17, 2021

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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. NOTE: While correct that validation is missing, an error can only occur due to an exhaustion of memory. If the user can exhaust memory, they are already privileged. Further, it should be practically impossible to construct an attack which can target the memory exhaustion to occur at exactly this place

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01241 · 69.0th percentile
Published
2021-12-17T19:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 DEC 19:25Z
    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…
    cvelistv5