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CVE-2021-41496
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-12-17T20:15:08.517 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:08:34.020

Summary

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 products

numpy — numpy

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