Bug 1376696 (CVE-2016-7420) - CVE-2016-7420 cryptopp: Library documentation lacks treatment of -DNDEBUG and Static Initialization
Summary: CVE-2016-7420 cryptopp: Library documentation lacks treatment of -DNDEBUG and...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-7420
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1376697 1376698
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-16 07:54 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:58:42 UTC
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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.
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