CVE-2019-20016Out-of-bounds Write in Libmysofa

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 27
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

debiandebian/libmysofa< libmysofa 0.9~dfsg0-1 (bookworm)
Debiansymonics/libmysofa< 0.9~dfsg0-1+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7m36-g6v3-rhwr: libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack consumption in readOHDRHeaderMess2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2019-20016: libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack consumption in readOHDRHeaderMess2019-12-27

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2019-20016: libmysofa - libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls,...2019
CVE-2019-20016 — Out-of-bounds Write in Libmysofa | cvebase