Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gnucobol package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-GNUCOBOL-456581
  • published4 Aug 2019
  • disclosed2 Aug 2019

Introduced: 2 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14541  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:10 gnucobol.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnucobol package and not the gnucobol package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in cb_encode_program_id in cobc/typeck.c via crafted COBOL source code.