CVE-2019-20016

NameCVE-2019-20016
Descriptionlibmysofa 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libmysofa (PTS)bullseye1.2~dfsg0-1fixed
bookworm1.3.1~dfsg0-1fixed
trixie, sid1.3.3+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libmysofasource(unstable)0.9~dfsg0-1

Notes

[buster] - libmysofa <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/commit/2e6fac6ab6156dae8e8c6f417741388084b70d6f
https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/83
https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/84

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