CVE-2016-7420

2016-09-1600:00:00

ubuntu.com

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

68.0%

JSON

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.

Notes

Author	Note
ratliff	precise, trusty, xenial, yakkety all build using -NDEBUG
msalvatore	I’m retiring this CVE and marking each release as “ignored”. I’ve confirmed ratliff’s above comment. In addition, the fix for this CVE is simply an update to the documentation.