CVE-2019-17113

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-10-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

In libopenmpt before 0.3.19 and 0.4.x before 0.4.9, ModPlug_InstrumentName and ModPlug_SampleName in libopenmpt_modplug.c do not restrict the lengths of libmodplug output-buffer strings in the C API, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Openmpt Libopenmpt: before 0.3.19; from 0.4.0 before 0.4.9 — fixed in 0.3.19, 0.4.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Openmpt Libopenmpt 0.3.19, 0.4.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00035.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00044.html
https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/commit/927688ddab43c2b203569de79407a899e734fabe
https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/compare/libopenmpt-0.3.18...libopenmpt-0.3.19
https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/compare/libopenmpt-0.4.8...libopenmpt-0.4.9
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00003.html
https://source.openmpt.org/browse/openmpt/trunk/OpenMPT/?op=revision&rev=12127&peg=12127
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4729
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00035.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00044.html
https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/commit/927688ddab43c2b203569de79407a899e734fabe
https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/compare/libopenmpt-0.3.18...libopenmpt-0.3.19

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