What is CVE-2019-20016?

CVE-2019-20016 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Symonics Libmysofa, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-12-27.

How severe is CVE-2019-20016?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Symonics Libmysofa

CVE-2019-20016

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.017 (74.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Symonics Libmysofa
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-20016?: CVE-2019-20016 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Symonics Libmysofa, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-12-27.
How severe is CVE-2019-20016?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.