CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7544

Published: Jan 30, 2017 | Modified: Feb 07, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Crypto++ 5.6.4 incorrectly uses Microsofts stack-based _malloca and _freea functions. The library will request a block of memory to align a table in memory. If the table is later reallocated, then the wrong pointer could be freed.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Crypto++ Cryptopp 5.6.4 (including) 5.6.4 (including)

References