Bug 1376696 (CVE-2016-7420)

Summary:	CVE-2016-7420 cryptopp: Library documentation lacks treatment of -DNDEBUG and Static Initialization
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	alekcejk, mstevens
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-09-16 07:54:03 UTC

A flaw was found in the documentation of cryptopp. The documentation lacked that users must define -DNDEBUG when using alternate build systems, like Autotools or CMake. This led to a sensitive information leak to third parties.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/519

Upstream bug:

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

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-09-16 07:54:43 UTC

Created cryptopp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1376697]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1376698]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:58:42 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.