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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: noloader@...il.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, jbyrd@...anticsoftware.com
Subject: Re: CVE Assignment for Crypto++ and "AES and incorrect argument to _freea() under Microsoft compilers"

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> a crash in Crypto++'s AES implementation under
> Microsoft compilers due to use of `_malloca`, `AliasedWithTables` and
> `_freea`. Crypto++ can potentially free the wrong pointer
> 
> https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/302

>> if at any point the "space" pointer is changed from its original
>> location by the 256-byte rounding function, you're guaranteed to be in
>> for some pain at _freea time, as _freea refers to a memory address
>> that was never allocated in the first place.

Use CVE-2016-7544.

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