CVE-2021-41495: NULL Pointer Dereference

December 17, 2021 (updated November 7, 2023)

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy &lt in the PyArray_DescrNew function due to missing return-value validation, which allows attackers to conduct DoS attacks by repetitively creating sort arrays.

References

github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/19038
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41495

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