Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnucobol  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GNUCOBOL-525924
  • published19 Sept 2019
  • disclosed17 Sept 2019

Introduced: 17 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16396  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnucobol package and not the gnucobol package as distributed by Debian.

GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a use-after-free in the end_scope_of_program_name() function in cobc/parser.y via crafted COBOL source code.