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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20016

libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack consumption in readOHDRHeaderMess...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 libmysofa

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9~dfsg0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 libmysofa

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9~dfsg0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 libmysofa

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.9~dfsg0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org