Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2021-4048 |
CWE-ID | CWE-125 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
lapack Other software / Other software solutions |
Vendor | www.netlib.org |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU69295
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4048
CWE-ID:
CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the CLARRV, DLARRV, SLARRV, and ZLARRV functions in lapack. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and crash the affected application.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionslapack: 3.6.0 - 3.9.1
External linkshttp://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/42415
http://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/337b65133df174796794871b3988cd03426e6d41
http://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/2be5ee3cca97a597f2ee2118808a2d5eacea050c
http://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/ddb0ff5353637bb5f5ad060c9620e334c143e3d7
http://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/commit/38f3eeee3108b18158409ca2a100e6fe03754781
http://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/pull/625
http://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/fe497efa0510466fd93578aaf9da1ad8ed4edbe7
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6QFEVOCUG2UXMVMFMTU4ONJVDEHY2LW2/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DROZM4M2QRKSD6FBO4BHSV2QMIRJQPHT/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.