CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19432

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 22, 2018 | Modified: Jun 10, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.7 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

An issue was discovered in libsndfile 1.0.28. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function sf_write_int in sndfile.c, which will lead to a denial of service.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libsndfile Libsndfile_project 1.0.28 (including) 1.0.28 (including)
Libsndfile Ubuntu bionic *
Libsndfile Ubuntu cosmic *
Libsndfile Ubuntu trusty *
Libsndfile Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Libsndfile Ubuntu xenial *

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