Libmysofa
CVE-2019-20063
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Proper initialization
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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hdf/dataobject.c in libmysofa before 0.8 has an uninitialized use of memory, as demonstrated by mysofa2json. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-665. hdf/dataobject.c in libmysofa before 0.8 has an uninitialized use of memory, as demonstrated by mysofa2json. Affected products include: Symonics Libmysofa. Version information: before 0.8.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
hdf/dataobject.c in libmysofa before 0.8 has an uninitialized use of memory, as demonstrated by mysofa2json.
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Attack Technique
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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
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
Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has a NULL pointer dereference in getHrtf in hrtf/reader.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), t
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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