CVE-2019-20016: libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack consumption in…

PriorityP429medium6.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.69%

74.5th percentile

libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack consumption in readOHDRHeaderMessageDatatype in dataobject.c and directblockRead in fractalhead.c. NOTE: a download of v0.9 after 2019-12-06 should fully remediate this issue.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	libmysofa	< libmysofa 0.9~dfsg0-1 (bookworm)	libmysofa 0.9~dfsg0-1 (bookworm)
symonics	libmysofa	< 0.9	0.9
symonics	libmysofa	>= 0 < 0.9~dfsg0-1	0.9~dfsg0-1
symonics	libmysofa	>= 0 < 0.9~dfsg0-1	0.9~dfsg0-1
symonics	libmysofa	>= 0 < 0.9~dfsg0-1	0.9~dfsg0-1
symonics	libmysofa	>= 0 < 0.9~dfsg0-1	0.9~dfsg0-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

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