CVE-2019-20016
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CVE-2019-20016 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 1.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Symonics | Libmysofa | < 0.9 |
References
- https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/commit/2e6fac6ab6156dae8e8c6f417741388084b70d6fPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/83Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/84Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/commit/2e6fac6ab6156dae8e8c6f417741388084b70d6fPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/83Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/84Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Last Modified
- Status
- Modified
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