USN-6226-1: SciPy vulnerabilities

13 July 2023

Several security issues were fixed in SciPy.

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Packages

  • scipy - scientific library for Python - documentation

Details

It was discovered that SciPy did not properly manage memory operations
during reference counting. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-25399)

A use-after-free was discovered in SciPy when handling reference counts. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-29824)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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