CVE-2013-7459 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Pycrypto

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow11 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
14.5%
top 5.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Dlitz PycryptoFedoraproject FedoraPaloalto Pan-os
Timeline
PublishedFeb 15
Latest updateJul 8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a crafted iv parameter to cryptmsg.py.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶PyPIdlitz/pycrypto< 8dbe0dc3eea5c689d4f76b37b93fe216cf1f00d4+1
▶NVDdlitz/pycrypto2.6.1
▶Palo Altopaloalto/pan-os

Also affects: Fedora 24, 25

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Buffer Overflow in pycrypto↗2018-12-14
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GHSA
Buffer Overflow in pycrypto↗2018-12-14
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CVEList
CVE-2013-7459: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace↗2017-02-15
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OSV
CVE-2013-7459: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace↗2017-02-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Palo Alto
PAN↗2020-07-08
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Ubuntu
Python Crypto vulnerability↗2017-08-28
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Ubuntu
Python Crypto regression↗2017-02-17
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Ubuntu
Python Crypto vulnerability↗2017-02-16
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Red Hat
pycrypto: Heap-buffer overflow in ALGobject structure↗2015-12-15
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-7459 pycrypto: Heap-buffer overflow in ALGobject structure↗2017-01-03
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CVE-2013-7459 — Dlitz Pycrypto vulnerability | cvebase