Symonics libmysofa 0.7 has an out-of-bounds read in directblockRead in hdf/fractalhead.c.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4473-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libmysofa incorrectly handled certain input files. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2019-16091, CVE-2019-16092,     CVE-2019-16093, CVE-2019-16094, CVE-2019-16095)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for libmysofa fixes the following issues :

  - Added security backports: gh#hoene/libmysofa#136 -     CVE-2020-36152 - boo#1181977 gh#hoene/libmysofa#138 -     CVE-2020-36148 - boo#1181981 gh#hoene/libmysofa#137 -     CVE-2020-36149 - boo#1181980 gh#hoene/libmysofa#134 -     CVE-2020-36151 - boo#1181978 gh#hoene/libmysofa#135 -     CVE-2020-36150 - boo#1181979 gh#hoene/libmysofa#96 -     CVE-2020-6860 - boo#1182883

Update to version 0.9.1

  - Extended angular neighbor search to 'close the sphere'

  - Added and exposed mysofa_getfilter_float_nointerp method

  - Fixed various security issues CVE-2019-16091 -     boo#1149919 CVE-2019-16092 - boo#1149920 CVE-2019-16093
    - boo#1149922 CVE-2019-16094 - boo#1149924     CVE-2019-16095 - boo#1149926 CVE-2019-20016 -     boo#1159839 CVE-2019-20063 - boo#1160040

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
183635	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : libmysofa vulnerabilities (USN-4473-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	critical
147930	openSUSE Security Update : libmysofa (openSUSE-2021-444)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical

Detections

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CVE-2019-16091

high

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critical