CVE-2021-41497: bounter Null pointer reference

December 18, 2021 (updated November 21, 2024)

Null pointer reference in CMS_Conservative_increment_obj in RaRe-Technologies bounter version 1.01 and 1.10, allows attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by inputting a huge width of hash bucket.

References

github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter
github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter/issues/47
github.com/advisories/GHSA-74xw-gwfm-7pv7
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/bounter/PYSEC-2021-880.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41497

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