cve/2016/CVE-2016-7420.md

### [CVE-2016-7420](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7420)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/277

#### Github
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