CVE-2019-20016 Information

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:H

Reference

https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/commit/2e6fac6ab6156dae8e8c6f417741388084b70d6f https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/83 https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/84

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5