Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-7420  

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.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Information disclosure

Description

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.

AVG-18 crypto++ 5.6.4-2 5.6.5-1 Medium Fixed FS#51331

12 Oct 2016 ASA-201610-8 AVG-18 crypto++ Medium information disclosure