CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-9578

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Mar 05, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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In devs.c in Yubico libu2f-host before 1.1.8, the response to init is misparsed, leaking uninitialized stack memory back to the device.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Libu2f-hostYubico*1.1.8 (excluding)
Libu2f-hostUbuntubionic*
Libu2f-hostUbuntucosmic*
Libu2f-hostUbuntudisco*
Libu2f-hostUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Libu2f-hostUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
Libu2f-hostUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References