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CVE-2021-41496

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2021-12-17 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj function of fortranobject.c in NumPy < 1.19, which allows attackers to conduct a Denial of Service attacks by carefully constructing an array with negative values. NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulnerability; the negative dimensions can only be created by an already privileged user (or internally)

Affected Platforms

Numpy Numpy

Weakness Type

CWE-120

References