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CVE-2019-16395

Date: September 17, 2019

GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the cb_name() function in cobc/tree.c via crafted COBOL source code.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (5)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16395

Url: https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/bugs/586/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16395

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-16395

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-16395

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CWE-120

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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