Libmysofa
CVE-2019-16092
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Null pointer safety, defensive checks
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has a NULL pointer dereference in getHrtf in hrtf/reader.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Check pointers before dereferencing. Use static analysis tools to detect null pointer paths.
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This vulnerability is classified as NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476), which allows attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer. Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has a NULL pointer dereference in getHrtf in hrtf/reader.c. Affected products include: Symonics Libmysofa, Canonical Ubuntu Linux.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has a NULL pointer dereference in getHrtf in hrtf/reader.c.
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Attack Technique
A null pointer dereference occurs when a program attempts to access memory through a pointer that has been set to NULL (address 0x0).
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
libmysofa is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotel
libmysofa 0.9.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in readDataVar in hdf/dataobject.c during the reading of a header mess
hdf/dataobject.c in libmysofa before 0.8 has an uninitialized use of memory, as demonstrated by mysofa2json. Rated high
libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack con
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has an invalid write in readOHDRHeaderMessageDataLayout in hdf/dataobject.c. Rated critical sever
treeRead in hdf/btree.c in libmysofa before 0.7 does not properly validate multiplications and additions. Rated critical
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has an invalid read in getDimension in hrtf/reader.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulner
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has an invalid read in readOHDRHeaderMessageDataLayout in hdf/dataobject.c. Rated high severity (
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has an out-of-bounds read in directblockRead in hdf/fractalhead.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5)
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