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PyQt5-Qt5

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latest
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The subset of a Qt installation needed by PyQt5.
License: unknown
Published: 5 months ago


SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses
13 software distribution restrictions
Secrets
192 debugging symbols found

Security

Vulnerabilities
5 severe vulnerabilities exploited
Hardening
1 baseline mitigations missing

Threats

Tampering
No evidence of software tampering
Malware
No evidence of malware inclusion

Popularity

70.75M
Total Downloads
Contributor
Declared Dependencies
160
Dependents

Top issues

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known severe vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported high or critical severity vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors.

Prevalence in PyPI community

38 packages
found in
Top 100
303 packages
found in
Top 1k
2611 packages
found in
Top 10k
103184 packages
in community

Next steps

We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as critical severity.

Prevalence in PyPI community

25 packages
found in
Top 100
212 packages
found in
Top 1k
1951 packages
found in
Top 10k
77976 packages
in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as high severity.

Prevalence in PyPI community

50 packages
found in
Top 100
352 packages
found in
Top 1k
2858 packages
found in
Top 10k
108771 packages
in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
Update the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software license is a legal instrument that governs the use and distribution of software source code and its binary representation. Software publishers have the freedom to choose any commonly used or purposefully written license to publish their work under. While some licenses are liberal and allow almost any kind of distribution, with or without code modification, other licenses are more restrictive and impose rules for their inclusion in other software projects. Some software licenses place restrictions on software distribution of the code they apply to. These restrictions may extend to the services built upon the code licensed under such restrictive licenses. Some restrictive licenses explicitly state that the licensee may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the licensed software. When building commercial applications, this is typically undesirable. Therefore, the inclusion of any code that may impose limits on software distribution is commonly avoided or even prohibited by the organization policy.

Prevalence in PyPI community

6 packages
found in
Top 100
50 packages
found in
Top 1k
737 packages
found in
Top 10k
99544 packages
in community

Next steps

Confirm that the software package references a component or a dependency with a restrictive license.
Consider replacing the software component with an alternative that offers a license compatible with organization policy.

Problem

Buffer overrun protection on Linux is achieved in two ways. The most common solution is to use the stack canary (also called cookie). The stack canary is a special value written onto the stack that allows the operating system to detect and terminate the program if a stack overrun occurs. In most cases, compilers will apply the stack canary conservatively in order to avoid a negative performance impact. Therefore, stack canaries are often used together with another stack overrun mitigation - fortified functions. Fortified functions are usually wrappers around standard glibc functions (such as memcpy) which perform boundary checks either at compile time or run time to determine if a memory violation has occurred. The compiler needs additional context to generate such calls (for example, array size that needs to be known at compile time). Because of this, the compiler will virtually never substitute all viable functions with their fortified counterparts in complex programs. However, when combined with the stack canary, fortified functions provide a good measure of buffer overrun protection.

Prevalence in PyPI community

13 packages
found in
Top 100
74 packages
found in
Top 1k
456 packages
found in
Top 10k
7612 packages
in community

Next steps

Presence of unfortified string functions may indicate use of unsafe programming practices, and you should avoid it if possible.
In GCC, enable fortified functions with -fstack-protector and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 flag, while using at least -O1 optimization level.

Top behaviors

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
10 packages
found in
Top 100
50 packages
found in
Top 1k
265 packages
found in
Top 10k
5875 packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
11 packages
found in
Top 100
73 packages
found in
Top 1k
368 packages
found in
Top 10k
8619 packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
1 packages
found in
Top 100
19 packages
found in
Top 1k
129 packages
found in
Top 10k
2361 packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
3 packages
found in
Top 100
32 packages
found in
Top 1k
197 packages
found in
Top 10k
4489 packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
34 packages
found in
Top 100
169 packages
found in
Top 1k
1256 packages
found in
Top 10k
55955 packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(8 Active Vulnerabilities)
1 (1 Fixable)
CVE-2017-14952c
7 (7 Fixable)
CVE-2016-6293c
CVE-2016-7415c
CVE-2020-10531h
None
None
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated