Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU21713

Reachable Assertion in libopenmpt - CVE-2019-14383

Published: October 11, 2019

Vulnerability identifier: #VU21713

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14383

CWE-ID: CWE-617

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion within the J2B in libopenmpt during file parsing with debug STLs. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted file to the application and crash it.

Affected software

libopenmpt
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2019-14383

Install updates from vendor's website.

libopenmpt - update to 0.4.2

External References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00084.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00085.html
https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/2019/01/22/security-updates-0.4.2-0.3.15-0.2.11253-beta37-0.2.7561-beta20.5-p13-0.2.7386-beta20.3-p16/

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