CVE-2021-41500

Name	CVE-2021-41500
Description	Incomplete string comparison vulnerability exits in cvxopt.org cvxop <= 1.2.6 in APIs (cvxopt.cholmod.diag, cvxopt.cholmod.getfactor, cvxopt.cholmod.solve, cvxopt.cholmod.spsolve), which allows attackers to conduct Denial of Service attacks by construct fake Capsule objects.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
cvxopt (PTS)	buster	1.1.9+dfsg-3	vulnerable
	bullseye	1.2.5+dfsg-3	vulnerable
	sid, trixie, bookworm	1.3.0+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
cvxopt	source	(unstable)	1.2.7+dfsg-1

Notes

[bullseye] - cvxopt <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - cvxopt <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - cvxopt <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/cvxopt/cvxopt/issues/193