CVE-2019-20016
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.53%
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-20016
To remediate CVE-2019-20016, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/libmysofa—upgrade to 0.9~dfsg0-1 or later
Is CVE-2019-20016 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.9~dfsg0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |