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CVE-2019-20016

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 27, 2019 at 01:12 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:29 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibmysofa

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Libmysofa· Symonics
95%
v < 0.9
Affected range stops below 0.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/commit/2e6fac6ab6156dae8e8c6f417741388084b70d6f
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/83
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/84

CVSS

6.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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