Out-of-bounds write in libmysofa - CVE-2019-16093
Published: September 8, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35531
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16093
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has an invalid write in readOHDRHeaderMessageDataLayout in hdf/dataobject.c.
Affected software
libmysofa
Ubuntu
libmysofa0 (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
libmysofa0 (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-16093
Install update from vendor's website.
libmysofa0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 0.6~dfsg0-3+deb10u1build1