In short
- CVE-2013-7459 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting pycrypto, pycrypto (dlitz).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 9.6%, higher than 95.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| pycrypto PyPI | ≤ 2.6.1all versions
| No fix yet |
| pycrypto | ≤ 2.6.1
| No fix yet |
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.
NVD 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.
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