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CVE-2019-3832

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

It was discovered the fix for CVE-2018-19758 (libsndfile) was not complete and still allows a read beyond the limits of a buffer in wav_write_header() function in wav.c. A local attacker may use this flaw to make the application crash.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Flexera Software LLC libsndfile: 1.0.28

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3832
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/456
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/pull/460
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00030.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-65
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3832
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/456
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/pull/460
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00030.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-65
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/

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