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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-09-16T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T01:57:47.536Z
Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-7420
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-09-16T05:59:15.427
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:57:58.327
Link: CVE-2016-7420
Redhat
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