CVE-2016-7420

Name	CVE-2016-7420
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libcrypto++ (PTS)	jessie (security), jessie	5.6.1-6+deb8u3	vulnerable
	stretch	5.6.4-7	vulnerable
	buster, sid	5.6.4-8	vulnerable

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libcrypto++	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

Notes

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/277
The scope of this CVE is the documentation bug, lacking treatment of
-DNDEBUG and Static Initialization
Documentation added in https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/commit/553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6