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CVE-2016-7420
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-16T05:59:15.427 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:02.063

Summary

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.

Affected products

cryptopp — crypto\+\+

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References

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