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CVE-2020-6860

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

libmysofa 0.9.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in readDataVar in hdf/dataobject.c during the reading of a header message attribute.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
• Symonics Libmysofa: 0.9.1

References

• https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/96
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PGQ45S4RH7MC42NHTAGOIHYR4C5IRTMZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WGY7TAZX2M4NYXXGNHIBBKKN5XMSMKQ4/
• https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/96
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PGQ45S4RH7MC42NHTAGOIHYR4C5IRTMZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WGY7TAZX2M4NYXXGNHIBBKKN5XMSMKQ4/

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