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CVE-2018-19758 (GCVE-0-2018-19758)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-30 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:44
VLAI
Summary
There is a heap-based buffer over-read at wav.c in wav_write_header in libsndfile 1.0.28 that will cause a denial of service.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643812 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2018-11-29 00:00
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