Medium

rockhopper Buffer Overflow vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 28.05.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 13:19

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in bwoodsend rockhopper up to 0.1.2. Affected by this issue is the function count_rows of the file rockhopper/src/ragged_array.c of the component Binary Parser. The manipulation of the argument raw leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. Upgrading to version 0.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 1a15fad5e06ae693eb9b8908363d2c8ef455104e. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-266312.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) rockhopper < 0.2.0 0.2.0

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-120
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
rockhopper
Disclosed
28.05.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 13:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-1875 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-4r4c-66gf-g9g5 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: rockhopper

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