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CVE-2016-7420 (GCVE-0-2016-7420)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-09-16 00:00
Modified
2025-11-14 20:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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