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DISPUTED A use-after-free issue was discovered in PyFindObjects() function in SciPy versions prior to 1.8.0.
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/14713 http://www.square16.org/achievement/cve-2023-29824/ https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/15013 https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/14713#issuecomment-1629468565
DISPUTED A use-after-free issue was discovered in PyFindObjects() function in SciPy versions prior to 1.8.0. NOTE: the vendor and discoverer indicate that this is not a security issue.
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Original Description
A refcounting issue which leads to potential memory leak was discovered in scipy commit 8627df31ab in PyFindObjects() function.
The scipy.weave component in SciPy before 0.12.1 creates insecure temporary directories.