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CVE-2016-7420

Published: Sep 16, 2016

Modified: Nov 14, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/commit/553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6

vdb-entry

[oss-security] 20160915 Re: Does a documentation bug elevate to CVE status? - Crypto++

mailing-list

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/277

[oss-security] 20160915 Re: Does a documentation bug elevate to CVE status? - Crypto++

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[oss-security] 20230928 Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec

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[oss-security] 20230928 Re: CVE-2023-4863: libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec

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