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


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-GNUCOBOL-456584
  • published4 Aug 2019
  • disclosed2 Aug 2019

Introduced: 2 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14528  (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 heap-based buffer overflow in read_literal in cobc/scanner.l via crafted COBOL source code.