CWE-664
Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
Description
The product does not maintain or incorrectly maintains control over a resource throughout its lifetime of creation, use, and release.
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Common Consequences
Scope
Impact
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CVE-2018-1000613Cryptography API uses unsafe reflection when deserializing a private key
CVE-2019-19911Chain: Python library does not limit the resources used to process images that specify a very large number of bands (CWE-1284), leading to excessive memory consumption (CWE-789) or an integer overflow (CWE-190).
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