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[CRITICAL] Security Vulnerability in pycrypto #428

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Security Vulnerability Detected

Dependency: pycrypto
Criticality: CRITICAL (Score: undefined)

Vulnerability Details

Name: CVE-2013-7459

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a crafted iv parameter to cryptmsg.py.

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