Name: CVE-2019-20016: Out-of-bounds Write
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-12-27T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-20016, CWE-787, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00528

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade libmysofa	Jul 30, 2024	Dec 27, 2019
Suse	—	Upgrade libmysofa0-64bitUpgrade libmysofa0Upgrade libmysofa-devel	Mar 19, 2021	Dec 27, 2019
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Dec 27, 2019

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CVSS Details

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